Friday, 31 May 2013

US CDC testing retrospectively for MERS in Jordan.

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I'm little slow on this day old story. Jordan was the site of the first MERS-CoV cases, confirmed retrospectively by NAMRU-3 (see MERS p...

Moroccan MERS?

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ProMED says a news report has been confirmed by the head of the Moroccan Health Defense Network.  However, FluTrackers has a report tha...
Thursday, 30 May 2013

Poultry workers had no prior exposure to H7N9 [UPDATED]

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Bai and colleagues report in NEJM that 1,544 samples collected from young adult poultry workers between Jan-Nov 2012 in 4 key provinces/mun...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013

Nothing unusual about MTAs-are commenters just confused?

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Material transfer agreements are more the norm than the exception among scientist used to local an d international collaborations whether wo...

5 new MERS-CoV cases come from nowhere.

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The Saudi Ministry of Health effusive detail below.. Within the framework of the epidemiological surveillance of the novel Coronavirus ...

Imported French MERS case dies.

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Reuters reports that the 65M who contracted MERS-CoV while travelling in Dubai has died.  He shared a room with a 50M who subsequently c...

H7N9 in Beijing.

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Busy night. According to crofsblogs and Avian Flu Diary , Beijing has reported a new case of H7N9 in a 6M, confirmed 28.05.13. This makes ...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013

H7N9: airborne transmission not at pandemic levels - infects upper & lower airways, lymph nodes and brain in ferrets.

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In a collaborative effort published last week in Science , researchers from China, Canada and the US infected ferrets with a human H7N9 isol...

No new H7N9 cases for 2nd week.

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Self explanatory., There was on death in the week spanning 20.05 to 27.05. 76 cases have recovered now and 37 died. The numbers I'm able...
Monday, 27 May 2013

EV-A71 in cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP), Australia.

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ProMED describes a report from researchers at the Australian National Enterovirus Reference Laboratory on 5 cases of AFP positive for EV-A...