Anyway, I haven't updated this chart for 17-days (woah - sorry about that). The latest version now has the two major hospital-related outbreaks shown in pink - I'm still liking the Janadriyah festival as the possible source of community cases that then filter back throughout the country as visitors and tourists return to different areas or travel afterwards for other reasons. That would be on my 2015's "festivals that need to be tweaked to avoid camel contact" list.
As per yesterday's post, these accumulation curves highlight that new detections of MERS-CoV have slowed right down in the KSA and in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). However, the UAE are now the reporting slow pokes, if the last batch posted by the World Health Organization is anything to go by, so we should stay tuned to what's happening there (and also stay tuned to the extent of upper respiratory tract signs and symptoms in those cases which continue to bug me).
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