Friday, 23 October 2015

Markets that deal in camels may help spread MERS-CoV variants..

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This camel/MERS-CoV study from Farag and colleagues, serves as follow-up of sorts to my last post . The paper, which was published in July 2...
Tuesday, 20 October 2015

If you are often in contact with camels are you more likely to acquire MERS-CoV? [spoiler: yep]

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This dromedary camel (DC)/Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) themed post is a quick review of a paper from 2015 by Reusken and a team o...
Monday, 19 October 2015

Can MERS-CoV be found in the upper and lower respiratory tract of infected camels? You bet your single hump it can!

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T oday's review is of a paper listed as published in Emerging Infectious Diseases in July 2015, authored by Khalafalla and colleagues fr...
Sunday, 18 October 2015

A negative viral culture result is not the end of the story...just a negative result

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Lately, for both Ebola virus and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, there have been instances where I've been reminded that o...
Saturday, 17 October 2015

Kenyan camel coronaviruses...

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Two studies have now found antibodies from Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)-like coronaviruses in dromedary camels (D...
Thursday, 15 October 2015

MERS and the media in Saudi Arabia - a match that fuels confusion....

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I'm interrupting my reviews on MERS and camels to briefly critique a recent media article published in the Arab News, Wednesday 14th of ...
Wednesday, 14 October 2015

What's hard to understand about camels carrying MERS-CoV and rarely infecting humans...?

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What is the hard part to understanding that camels harbour the same Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) that infects h...

MERS-CoV on the farm...

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I'm going to spend a few posts catching up on some excellent papers showing the role of camels in harbouring and transmitting the Midd...
Monday, 12 October 2015

Jon Snow is remarkably well informed compared to us...

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...because we clearly know almost nothing when it comes to the specifics of where Ebola virus (EBOV) can, in some portion of survivors, hide...
Saturday, 10 October 2015

Is the next Ebola virus revelation...reactivating infection?

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Update #1 11OCT2015 AEST Update #2 11OCT2015 AEST Update #3 22OCT2015 AEST Great. Are members of the  Zaire ebolavirus  (EBOV) speci...