Saturday, 9 November 2013

Are we testing enough?

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I had written this as part of my last post but it didn't fit in with that topic... Yes there was a case of pneumonia  in the Kingdom ...

MERS-CoV by the numbers: recent weekly case activity...

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Click to enlarge. Confirmed MERS-CoV cases (green) and deaths (red) each week. Case numbers are listed on the y-axis (side), da...
Thursday, 7 November 2013

MERS-CoV case in Spain, imported from Saudi Arabia during visit for Hajj pilgrimage [UPDATED]

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Spain's  Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality ( Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad ) has been re por...
Sunday, 3 November 2013

Am I doing enough?

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I'm very guilty of suffering from this. The darker side of my nature shoves this question up to the surface, as I'm sure it does fo...
Friday, 1 November 2013

Infection prevention and control and MERS

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Harriman, Brosseau and Triverdi have written to the Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) to express their concerns over the...

MERS-CoV and the host: a serious disease of those with disease

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Case total currently stands at 150 including 64  deaths ( PFC of 43% ), with the World Health Organisation's latest update adding in ...
Wednesday, 30 October 2013

New MERS-CoV laboratory test: takes 10-minutes but what can it tell you?

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Back in June we heard of a quick test for MERS-CoV to add to the diagnostic armamentarium. I  posted on it here . Now that the Abu Dhabi Me...

French "probable" case pas vraiment so probable after all

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FluTracker's and Mike Coston is busy keeping us up-to-date on the latest with MERS-CoV concerns around the world post-Hajj. Last night...

First case of MERS-CoV in Oman...home of antibody-positve camels...[UPDATED]

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A new country has described, via the media (quoting Mohamed bin Saif al Hosni, Under-Secretary for Oman's Health Affairs), its first Mi...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Latest confirmed cases and a probable new MERS-CoV case(s) in France [UPDATED]

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It's been a couple of days since the last report of a new MERS-CoV case, that of an expatriate, 23-year old asymptomatic male contact of...