The top pie chart shows the distributionof all human cases containing the word "camel" in their case notes, by the site wherethe human was likely to have acquired their MERS-CoV infection. The bottom bar graph shows those data...
MERS in Kuwait...
It's a "MERS-in.." kinda day. The World Health Organization todayannounced a fatal case of confirmed MERS-CoV infection diagnosed in Kuwait [1].Summary of the case details:The infected person was a 60-year old maleA Syrian nationalHospitalised 13-Feb-2014Died 6-Mar-2014Lab confirmed 9-Mar-2014He...
MERS in the UAE....[UPDATED]
For the second time this month, there has been a case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MES-CoV) infection confirmed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE; Abu Dhabi to be precise). What added to my confusion (as you'll know if you were following me on Twitter this morning) was that both...
Any differences in the sex of avian influenza A(H7N9) virus cases in different areas of China?
a) Male (blue) and female (lavender) lab-confirmed H7N9 human cases broken into the Province or Municipality of likely acquisition. b) The proportion of total H7N9 positives at each site of acquisition that are female (lavender). The proportion of females...
MERS-CoV: sex, age and accumulating death
A few more charts, just to fill out the set for today's Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) update.First Chart.Click on chart to enlarge.The first chart shows what everyone knows; MERS, as it has been for the past 2-years, is a severe disease principally of the people of...
Influenza viruses in Queensland, Australia: 03-Mar-2014:09-2014.
Map of Queensland's Hospital and Health service areas. Adapted fromhttp://www.health.qld.gov.au/maps/hhs_facilities.pdf.Click on image to enlarge.Sure enough, as promised on the 12-Mar, the new Queensland flu numbers are out (I post a week after the next new numbers come out publicly;...
Respiratory viruses: the viruses we detect in the human respiratory tract
A list of the viruses we can and do detect in the (mostly upper) human respiratory tract.The standard testing panel/diagnostic menu comprises the influenza A and B viruses, parainfluenza viruses 1-3, respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus and the adenoviruses.Some caveats:I make no claims...
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) cases rise in march: Festival-related?
It's been nearly 3-weeks since my last update so I'm well overdue to look at what's changed.Click on image to enlarge.A quick post first up showing the accumulating cases by the region in which the person probably caught their infection and the week in which they became ill - or the week in which the...
