Sunday, 22 November 2015

Updating the animal "to-do" list...

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I have a couple of talks coming up, so I'm making graphics again. And I like to share those.  This one is an update on some of the cre...
Friday, 20 November 2015

Liberia reports another case of Ebola virus infection...

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Reset the contacts clocks. Liberia has had a second setback in the fight to rid West Africa of human Ebola virus (EBOV) infections.  Whi...
Monday, 16 November 2015

National Health and Medical Research Council: project grant funding successes for supply in 2016...

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Just a short one. Putting up a graph I posted on Twitter 09-NOV-2015 in case anyone wanted the chart. This is a better quality image. ...

Interlude....

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...the camel data review will return soon.
Saturday, 7 November 2015

Congratulations to Sierra Leone for defeating its Ebola virus disease epidemic!

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Edited by Katherine Arden, PhD. "On Behalf of the Sierra Leone National Ebola Response Centre (NERC) and the World  Health Organis...
Thursday, 5 November 2015

Updating the very model of a modern mammal-camel....

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The new findings from the case-control study out of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (and US CDC) deserve an update of my old model of how one ...

It was the camel, in the library, with the MERS-CoV...

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In a paper out overnight, which is assigned to the January 1st 2016 edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases (why do you do this to us EI...
Monday, 2 November 2015

MERS in bats..what have we actually found so far?

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Only 1 MERS-CoV sequence. In 1 bat. That's the short answer. Researchers found a Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus...
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...