SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said onTuesday that it would investigate all hospitalizedpneumonia patients to determine whether they hadbeen exposed to Middle East respiratorysyndrome, as it struggled to contain an outbreakof the virus that has infected 95 people in thecountry and killed seven.

韩国首尔——韩国周二表示，将对所有入院治疗的肺炎患者进行排查，以确定他们是否曾接触中东呼吸综合征(MiddleEast Respiratory Syndrome，简称MERS)。目前，韩国正在艰难地控制MERS疫情，这里已有95人受到感染，7人丧生。

The outbreak of the virus, known as MERS, in South Korea is the largest reported outsideSaudi Arabia, where more than 440 people have died of the disease since it was discoveredthere in 2012. MERS symptoms are similar to those of pneumonia.

据报道，除沙特阿拉伯以外，MERS疫情在韩国最为严重。自2012年在沙特发现这种疾病以来，该国已有逾440人死于MERS。这种疾病的症状与肺炎类似。

 

 

Although a vast majority of MERS patients in South Korea were infected in two hospitals,cases have also been found in seven other hospitals in Seoul, the capital, and elsewhere.

尽管韩国的绝大多数MERS患者是在两家医院受到感染的，但是首都首尔的另外七家医院及其他一些地方，也发现了MERS病例。

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