Showing posts with label animal source. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal source. Show all posts
Saturday, 12 April 2014

Animal contacts among Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases: UPDATE

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Click on image to enlarge. An update of the total number of cases where animal contact or exposure has been noted.  Such mentions se...
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, 14 September 2013

Most MERS may not have met a camel, but index cases may have

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Donald G McNeil Jr., writing in the New York Times   a few days ago, posited the idea that camel contact, while not at all widespread amo...
Sunday, 25 August 2013

Why only 181 nucleotides of T.perforatus MERS-CoV sequence?

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In some of the many articles written about the new discovery this week, there were comments along the lines of   its amazing any sequence co...
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Thursday, 22 August 2013

MERS-CoV genetic sequences found in Taphozous perforatus bat

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Profs Ziad Memish and Ian Lipkin, and a team of collaborators including researchers from the EcoHelath Alliance , have published, in Emergin...
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Tuesday, 20 August 2013

H7N9 and H5N1 may have emerged from birds around Taihu Lake

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Wang and colleagues from the Institute of Disease Control and Prevention of People’s Liberation Army, Beijing, China and from The Universit...
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Monday, 12 August 2013

Camels being tested for MERS-CoV by Saudi Arabia?

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An article on arabnews.com has Prof Ziad Memish saying that the Ministry of Health has "subjected samples from camels and sheep to lab...
Friday, 9 August 2013

Camels carry signs of coronavirus contagion

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Reusken and a  European collaborative team have this morning described the first study looking for evidence of prior infection with the MERS...

Ian Lipkin has samples from animals for testing...and the hunt is away, like camels racing in the desert!

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In a couple of Tweets from Jennifer Yang (@jyangstar; who writes for the Toronto Star ) this morning, and from her article on MERS-CoV antib...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013

MERS-CoV numbers-where are we at?

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As the dust settles from several days of new cases, and deaths and retrospective case identifications, I sit waiting for some caped crusader...
Thursday, 2 May 2013

That (don't call me novel) coronavirus is back!

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Media reports , FluTrackers and Avian Flu Diary describe five recent deaths and two other critically ill cases under close watch in the Al...