This study presents standard expected years of life lost due to premature mortality for calculating the burden of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV cases that have occurred from January 1, 2018, to March 31, 2019, worldwide. The study used a publicly available MERS-CoV database on the WHO website regarding case reports retrieved from disease outbreak news.
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