Monday, 5 October 2015

A place to be critical...

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Around May/June 2015, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus escaped its Arabian Peninsula bonds and exploded...still assoc...
Sunday, 27 September 2015

Corona counts continue to clarify...

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From Mackay & Arden [1] Click on image to enlarge The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA) Ministry of Health (MOH) has, over the pas...
Friday, 18 September 2015

Happy 3rd birthday Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)...

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It has been 3-years since Prof. Ali Mohamed Zaki sent his email to ProMED notifying them, and the world, of a novel coronavirus (15-Sept-2...

MERS around the world...

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China was the 26th country to host a MERS-CoV infected person, when a 44-year old symptomatic male (onset 21-May-2015) travelled from South ...

MERS by month, camel and mass gathering...

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I haven't updated this figure in a long while but recently had the chance to add some new camel calving season data [1] and another fes...
Thursday, 10 September 2015

Ignore mild and asymptomatic cases at your peril...

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Infected but apparently well people may be key points along the transmission chain - not just in spreading infectious virus, but also in con...
Friday, 4 September 2015

To (type) B or not to (type) B...

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Image adapted from Geoscience Australia , The Australian Government.[13] The latest weekly influenza statistics for Queensland were...
Thursday, 3 September 2015

Where do these 'primary' MERS cases come from?

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I was just dropping by the General Directorate for Infection Prevention and Control's Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) statistics...
Sunday, 23 August 2015

Whether MERS-CoV spreads or stops is entirely up to the hospitals...

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This post has been moved to the new  Virology Down Under  platform on Wordpress. You can get to this specific post by clicking on the link b...
Saturday, 22 August 2015

Watch that last step, it's a doozy..

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For each of the past five weeks, Guinea has continued to throw up 1-5 Ebola virus disease (EVD) cases. But transmission chains are known an...