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Geopositioned Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Occurrences Database 1983-2017

General Info

Provider 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Geography 
Algeria (DZA)
Austria (AUT)
Bahrain (BHR)
Bangladesh (BGD)
Burkina Faso (BFA)
Chile (CHL)
China (CHN)
Egypt (EGY)
Ethiopia (ETH)
France (FRA)
Germany (DEU)
Greece (GRC)
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (IRN)
Israel (ISR)
Italy (ITA)
Jordan (JOR)
Kenya (KEN)
Kuwait (KWT)
Lebanon (LBN)
Malaysia (MYS)
Mali (MLI)
Morocco (MAR)
Netherlands (NLD)
Nigeria (NGA)
Oman (OMN)
Pakistan (PAK)
Philippines (PHL)
Qatar (QAT)
Republic of Korea (KOR)
Saudi Arabia (SAU)
Somalia (SOM)
Spain (ESP)
Sudan (SDN)
Thailand (THA)
Tunisia (TUN)
Türkiye (TUR)
Uganda (UGA)
United Arab Emirates (ARE)
United Kingdom (GBR)
United States of America (USA)
Yemen (YEM)
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Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
January, 1983 - August, 2017
Data type
Scientific literature: GPS coordinates (GIS)
Summary 

This dataset contains 882 unique occurrences of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) extracted from 217 reports published between October 2012 and February 2018. Occurrences of MERS-CoV among humans, mammals, and environmental sources were extracted and geopositioned to the highest resolution possible (up to 5x5km). Special attention was given to spillover events (i.e., humans becoming infected from mammals). Thus, MERS-CoV occurrences meeting the criteria for index or unspecified cases are assigned their own rows; alternatively, multiple mammal, import, or secondary cases are collapsed to one row in the dataset.

Keywords 
Incidence, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Citation

Contributors 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Funders 
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
Publisher 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Publication year 
2019
Suggested citation 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Geopositioned Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Occurrences Database 1983-2017. Seattle, United States of America: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2019.

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Binary Data Geopositioned MERS-CoV Occurrences Database1.66 MB
Binary Data Data Input Sources905.91 KB
Binary Data Data Release Information Sheet618.16 KB
Source URL:https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/geopositioned-mers-cov-occurrences-database-1983-2017