Showing posts with label acquisition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acquisition. Show all posts
Thursday, 3 September 2015

Where do these 'primary' MERS cases come from?

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I was just dropping by the General Directorate for Infection Prevention and Control's Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) statistics...
Sunday, 31 August 2014

Ebola: Blood, sweat and tears...

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This post follows up the recent one on convalescent semen being able to harbour infectious Ebola virus (EBOV; although I am not aware of an...
Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Snapdate: MERS-CoV detections by where they were probably acquired...

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...yeah its "probably" because sometimes it's just not clear to anyone. I've about 14 (554 in total) more cases attributed...
Sunday, 23 March 2014

More camel mentions among MERS-CoV cases...

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Click on image to enlarge. Special thanks to Professor Andrew Rambaut ([4];  @arambaut ) for keeping such great track of the number of h...
Thursday, 13 March 2014

The decline of H7N9 Wave 2: some thoughts on why it may be different from Wave 1...

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Influenza virus and influenza the disease certainly give scientists a run for their limited money when it comes to predicting what either ...
Tuesday, 11 March 2014

H7N9 and human infections: not just a paltry matter

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Jones and an all-star cast of colleagues from Hong Kong, Shenzen, Beijing and Tennessee have looked at songbirds and their susceptibility ...
Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Dromedary camels are a host of MERS-CoV...

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Yes. Not a "MERS-CoV-like" virus or "something very closely related to but slightly different" from MERS-CoV. Camels. Ar...
Sunday, 16 February 2014

H7N9 snapdate: latest hotzone map

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Avian influenza A(H7N9) virus human cases by region of acquisition. Click on image to enlarge.
Thursday, 6 February 2014

H7N9 snapdate: hotspot map

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Click on image to enlarge. Modified from here .   Guangdong province starts to see red while Guangxi very quickly moved from 1 case to ...
Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Monkey magic: Vero cells make more MERS-CoV RNA than any other animal's...

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Apart from camel, goat, bat and human cells which draw the eye in studies on the source of MERS-CoV, did anyone notice the Vero cells?  ...
Saturday, 1 February 2014

Neither market nor farm poultry all that positive for H7N9; songbirds the culprit...?

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Following on from yesterday's post, " If not poultry then what? ", I thought it worth noting the impressive numbers from the C...
Friday, 31 January 2014

If not poultry then what? [UPDATED]

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Maybe China needs to look at other animals, both within market  environments  and at the source farms  ( using sensitive molecular tools...
Thursday, 30 January 2014

H7N9 snapdate: new charts for sex and age distribution and region of acquisition...

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Two new charts. Click on image to enlarge. Firstly , the "age pyramid", a revised and combined version of the age and sex d...
Wednesday, 29 January 2014

A date with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)..

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Click on image to enlarge. Do regions that host transient high concentrations of MERS-CoV (or a related virus)-positive animals play a key...
Tuesday, 24 December 2013

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): camels, camels, camels!

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Two studies in Eurosurveillance, an editorial note, A Lancet Infectious diseases report and a comment point 2 hairy toes toward camels a...