Clustered camel coronavirus cases...

Adding significant weight to the camel-as-vector hypothesis, stories here,  and here are being reported of a collaborative study between the Qatari Supreme Council of Health, the Qatari Ministry of Environment, the Netherlands� Health Ministry�s National Public Health Institute, the Erasmus Medical College and the World Health Organization (WHO) that have identified 3 camels that are positive for the MERS-CoV.

The camels were part of a a farm herd of 14 asymptotic animals that have been linked to 2 previous MERS-CoV cases in Qatar. 

h/t @Crof, @MERS_inSAUDI, @HelenBranswell