Saturday, 30 November 2013

Parechovirus infections in babies in New South Wales, Australia

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Friday, 29 November 2013

Rhinovirus (RV) transmission by aerosol: does it happen or is transmission solely by hand-contact and self-inoculation?

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Stuff from the literature: very SARS-like coronavirus in Chinese horsehoe bats...

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The smoking bat for SARS-CoV? Xing-Yi Ge and colleagues from China, USA, Australia and Singapore described some new severe acute respira...
Thursday, 28 November 2013

Dutch researchers in collaboration with Qatar are at work sequencing MERS-CoV from camels...

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And from the WHO comes confirmation of some of my earlier bits and pieces about the MERS-CoV in camels story from earlier.... The three c...

New influenza A(H7N9) virus case in

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Chinanews reports a new infection by H7N9 today. A 57-year old male was confirmed as positive 27-Nov and is in hospital in Hangzhou, the ...

Clustered camel coronavirus cases...

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Adding significant weight to the camel-as-vector hypothesis, stories here ,  and here are being reported of a collaborative study between...
Wednesday, 27 November 2013

MERS by the numbers: monthly MERS

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Click on image to enlarge. Cases (numbers on the y-axis; left) including deaths (green) and fatal cases (red) are shown for each month (x-...

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

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Click on image to enlarge. Confirmed MERS-CoV cases including  fatal  infections  (green) and  deaths (red)  each week.  Case numbe...

The MERS-CoV case slience has fallen lifted thanks to the WHO

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Well, apart from a blatant Dr Who references, this post is dedicated to providing a huge portion of back-patting for the great job the World...
Monday, 25 November 2013

No symptoms but still shedding virus?

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Click on image to enlarge. A stylized trace of the temperatures during a PCR cycle. D-denaturation, when primers and double-stranded D...