Showing posts with label United Arab Emirates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Arab Emirates. Show all posts
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...
Thursday, 21 May 2015

MERS-CoV jumps a flight to South Korea...but from where?

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It could be Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Any of these may have been the country of ...
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...
Monday, 5 May 2014

Snapdate: MERS-CoV detections near 500...

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MERS-CoV detection by day; Jeddah outbreak. Click on image to enlarge. Welcome to the beginning of MERS-CoV's 112th week (2.15 ye...
Saturday, 26 April 2014

An update on the April outbreak of MERS-CoV...

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We are in week 110 of the MERS-CoV outbreak event, that's 2.12 years and 386 cases including approximately 113 deaths ( PFC of 29.3...
Thursday, 24 April 2014

Dump the garbage...

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Sharon from @ FluTrackers and I had an exchange on Skype this morning - always a useful way to message, even with my high rate of typos - an...
Saturday, 19 April 2014

MERS-CoV detection: Cases by week and cumulative average still rising thanks to 2 healthcare clusters

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Click on image to enlarge. This chart, cases by week, really tells the story of a super-cluster driven by Jeddah's hospitals. Why th...

MERS-CoV cases continue steep climb thanks most to 2 healthcare-related clusters...

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Click on image to enlarge. Data are for lab-confirmed cases only, and  from FluTrackers, Ministries of Health and the World Health Organi...
Thursday, 17 April 2014

MERS-CoV numbers by week...

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There is a lot of buzz about the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) right now. Laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV Cases...
Sunday, 13 April 2014

MERS-CoV update: Case accumulation over time and by region of suspected acquisition...

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Click on chart to enlarge. I t's been about a month since I last updated this chart. While the situation is perhaps not yet worthy o...
Friday, 21 March 2014

MERS-CoV in camels... [CORRECTED]

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The top pie chart shows the distribution of  all human  cases containing  the word  "camel"  in  their  case notes,  by the ...

MERS in the UAE....[UPDATED]

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For the second time this month , there has been a case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MES-CoV) infection confirmed in th...
Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases rise in march: Festival-related?

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It's been nearly 3-weeks since my last update so I'm well overdue to look at what's changed. Click on image to enlarge. A ...