Monday, 9 September 2013

A memo to the Saudi Minister of Health...

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Crawford Kilian has written a memo to Abdullah Abdulaziz M. Al Rabeeah, MD, Minister of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is brilliant. ...

Saudi Arabia takes the initiative on MERS research

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A coronavirus virion schematic. IanM, Virology Down Under. In what many might describe as well overdue, an  independent  Saudi Arabian s...
Sunday, 8 September 2013

MERS cases jump by 8 today...biggest 24-hours in 15-months?

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Distribution go cases by site of likely acquisition. Based on publicly available data. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA) individu...

Flu-like symptoms on the rise in Qatar...

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The Gulf Times notes a rise in cases of "flu-like symptoms" in Doha, Qatar. Dr Sameer Kalanden, a general practitioner (GP) notes...

Hafr Al Batin MERS-CoV cluster grows...

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Click to enlarge. The red circle indicates Hafr Al Batin in the north east of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Apart from Riyadh's lat...
Saturday, 7 September 2013

Death of a young adult Qatari MERS patient who presented with flu-like illness...

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So that last post is out of date already. The Qatari Supreme Council of Health, as it does, has issued an announcement through the media ...

Tunisian father was MERS-CoV positive...

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A retrospective diagnosis by the US CDC has confirmed that the father of a MERS-CoV-positive brother and sister in Tunisia ( FluTracker'...
Friday, 6 September 2013

More MERS molecular masterfulness: Egyptian camels contain lots of anti-MERS-CoV antibodies [AMENDED]

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UPDATE #1: 23NOV2015 Perera and colleagues from China, Japan, Egypt and the United States report in Eurosurveillance that they have foun...

MERS-CoV and deaths rise....[UPDATE]

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The latest Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ministry of Health (MOH) announcement (Arabic only for now) provides scarce detail on 4 new cases ...
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H7N9 in wild birds...a review of the literature

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Not by me though., This was a review just published in EID Bird flyways that may contribute to H7N9 spread. by Olson and colleagues . ...
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