Tuesday, 31 March 2015

The weakening pulse of the Ebola monster...

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As of this post, some of the most comprehensive publicly available data on an emerging virus is coming out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia i...
Sunday, 29 March 2015

Where did the MERS-CoV comorbidity and animal contact fields go...? [UPDATED]

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Is this the work of the US CDC and other visitors helping the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ministry of Health (MOH) resolve their Middle E...
Friday, 27 March 2015

Editor's Note #22: Two years old today..

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On March 27  2013, around the time of Easter and the school holidays, I gave in to the urgings of my wife, to try this blogging thing.  ...
Monday, 23 March 2015

Useful Ebola virus disease graphics...

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Good graphics can be really helpful to convey information quickly - and no-one has time to read words anymore right? The one above ...
Saturday, 21 March 2015

Liberia enters the next phase of Ebola virus disease (EVD) eradication with a new case...

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version 2 What a heartbreaking disappointment this is for the people of Liberia, with a reported new case of EVD in a 44-year old woman w...
Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Catching Ebola: mistakes, messages and madness [amended]

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Written by Dr. Ian M. Mackay and Dr. Katherine E. Arden Despite obvious community and media fear, speculation and exclamation that Ebola ...
Monday, 9 March 2015

Last country outside the hotzone to pass 42-day period-awaits official announcement...

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The United Kingdom (UK) reached the 42-day mark, during which no new known cases resulted from the index case, on the 6th March 2015.  The...

MERS in the UAE...

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Over my weekend, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Germany reported that they had a Middle East respiratory syndrome case (65 year old retu...
Saturday, 28 February 2015

Editor's Note #21 Far better resting place I go to than I have ever known...

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I've spent all day analysing why the death of a person I never knew makes me sad. And as the day draws to a close, I've settled...
Wednesday, 25 February 2015

A new Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) table of graphs stacks up...

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My new favourite graphic.  This shows MERS-CoV detection by month since the virus was identified in 2012. Detections are further broken...