Showing posts with label Middle East respiratory syndrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle East respiratory syndrome. Show all posts
Friday, 23 October 2015

Markets that deal in camels may help spread MERS-CoV variants..

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This camel/MERS-CoV study from Farag and colleagues, serves as follow-up of sorts to my last post . The paper, which was published in July 2...
Wednesday, 14 October 2015

MERS-CoV on the farm...

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I'm going to spend a few posts catching up on some excellent papers showing the role of camels in harbouring and transmitting the Midd...
Sunday, 23 August 2015

Whether MERS-CoV spreads or stops is entirely up to the hospitals...

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Monday, 13 July 2015

MERS simmers down in South Korea...did we learn anything this time?

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Saturday, 23 May 2015

A good week for viruses...not so great for humans...

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Edited for clarity 25MAY2015 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) managed to get out for some sightseeing - travelling ...
Sunday, 29 March 2015

Where did the MERS-CoV comorbidity and animal contact fields go...? [UPDATED]

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Is this the work of the US CDC and other visitors helping the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ministry of Health (MOH) resolve their Middle E...
Monday, 9 March 2015

MERS in the UAE...

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Over my weekend, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Germany reported that they had a Middle East respiratory syndrome case (65 year old retu...
Wednesday, 14 January 2015

MERS-CoV snapdate...

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MERS-CoV detections by month and year As can be seen from the graph below, the peaks of MERS-CoV detection have been driven by humans and ...
Saturday, 20 September 2014

MERS risk reduction and signs of illness to watch for during hajj and umrah...

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I love a good infographic and this one ticks a lot of boxes for getting a clear message out about the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS...
Monday, 15 September 2014

Happy 2nd birthday Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)...

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Its been 2-years since Prof. Ali Mohamed Zaki sent his email to ProMED notifying them of a novel coronavirus. That email was published 20...
Tuesday, 5 August 2014

MERS-CoV: maps, totals, sex, age and different populations

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Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): summing up 100 weeks

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We stand at 182 cases with 78 deaths. The proportion of fatal cases (PFC) stands at 43% . Median age of all cases, including deaths, si...
Tuesday, 3 September 2013

How MERS may be SARS, but we don't really know

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On July 26th, Prof Christian Drosten wrote in Lancet Infectious Diseases about some similarities and differences between the diseases Middl...
Friday, 23 August 2013

MERS-CoVs: South African bats vs Saudi Arabian bats

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The latest sign of MERS-CoV in an animal, the Taphozous perforatus bat, is based on a 181 basepair (bp) fragment amplified from the vira...