MERS risk reduction and signs of illness to watch for during hajj and umrah...I love a good infographic and this one ticks a lot of boxes for getting a clear message out about the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) disease … Read More
Happy 2nd birthday Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)...Its been 2-years since Prof. Ali Mohamed Zaki sent his email to ProMED notifying them of a novel coronavirus. That email was published 20-Sept 2012.[1… Read MoreTo the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health: A request for missing data on retrospective MERS-CoV detectionsFrom: Ian M MackayTo: The Office of the Minister of Health, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaI write to humbly ask for your help on a matter of infectious disea… Read More
Updating a model of a modern Ebola epidemic...Professor David Fisman, University of Toronto, Canada published one of the excellent recent models designed to estimate where Ebola virus disease… Read MoreThe proportion of fatal cases (PFC)...This is excerpted and altered a little, from a more influenza A(H7N9) virus slanted article to be found here. But I think it deserves its own page.In … Read More
