A troup of Hamadryas Baboons (Papio hamdryas) outside
of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Hamadryads live for 30 to 35-years
Image from Northwest Wildlife Homepage.
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Alsharq.net notes that baboons are such a problem in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's southwest that electric fences are being erected to keep them out of certain areas.
Is anyone testing baboons for MERS-CoV? Or any other virus hunting going on in them for that matter?
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If they are even infrequently in contact with humans, bats and camels - then perhaps we should give them the laboratory once-over.
Some serology and some next generation sequencing would be a good place to start.
Thanks to FluTracker's Tweet and post on this.
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