Monday, 29 September 2014

The numbers are underestimates...

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Ebola virus numbers. Sorry but D'uh - yes the numbers during the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak happening since December in Guinea...

The control gap...

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Friday, 26 September 2014

MERS-CoV data request: A response from the Ministry of Health

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Four days after I posted a blog requesting missing data on retrospective Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) detection...
Monday, 22 September 2014

Ebola virus, HCWs infections and personal protective equipment..

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No one could offer anything but our deepest and most heartfelt thanks and a feeling of pride in the selfless, essential and humanitarian wor...
Saturday, 20 September 2014

MERS risk reduction and signs of illness to watch for during hajj and umrah...

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I love a good infographic and this one ticks a lot of boxes for getting a clear message out about the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS...
Friday, 19 September 2014

To the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health: A request for missing data on retrospective MERS-CoV detections

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From : Ian M Mackay To : The Office of the Minister of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia I write to humbly ask for your help on a matter o...
Thursday, 18 September 2014

Updating a model of a modern Ebola epidemic...

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Professor David Fisman, University of Toronto, Canada  published one of the excellent recent models designed to estimate where Ebola vir...
Monday, 15 September 2014

Happy 2nd birthday Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)...

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Its been 2-years since Prof. Ali Mohamed Zaki sent his email to ProMED notifying them of a novel coronavirus. That email was published 20...
Sunday, 14 September 2014

The proportion of fatal cases (PFC)...

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Saturday, 13 September 2014

The wind beneath my Ebola virus.... [UPDATED]

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Only a couple of weeks ago the report in Science presented 99 genomes representing some of the thousands of those circulating in Sierra Le...