MERS-CoV snapdate: detections by most likely region of acquisition...

Click on image to enalerge.Just a quick check. Yup. MERS-CoV detections still rising in a linear and steep manner.But we are nearly at the end of Week 111, and it has so far yielded (dates still to be finalised and largely based on dates reported) 42 detections compared to Week 110's 102 MERS-CoV...

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MERS in the USA....

The source of all exported MERS-CoV positive people lies within the Arabian peninsula. Very limited local spread has occurred within 3 non-peninsula countries.Click on image to enlarge.The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) made its way to another country yesterday;...

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MERS-CoV detected in asymptomatic people....

Maia Majumder has put by recent charting and charting efforts to shame. She is all over the latest Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) numbers. So if you're not following her on Twitter or watching her charts on piktochart or her blog, Mens et Manus, then you may be missing...

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What. The. Heck?

This is presented without comment...@sheeraf @DJSiri @philipgeany @onlyonewowwow @DMashak @MackayIM Amazing how a PhD in PHILOSOPHY makes one an expert in microbiology� Thea Goodman (@TheaGood) April 30, 2014 @MackayIM @philipgeany @sheeraf @DJSiri @onlyonewowwow @DMashak I suggest you read up on the new viruses but I see your forte is PHILOSOPHY� Thea Goodman (@TheaGood) April 30, 2014@TheaGood @sheeraf...

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H5N1 versus H7N9...

Data from the World Health Organization (2).Green bars include surviving and fatal H5N1 laboratory-confirmed cases in humans. The green "mountain" (area under the curve) is the accumulating tally of total cases. The red area-under-the-curve is the accumulating tally of fatal cases. The...

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H7N9 Snapdate: some quick charts...

Click on image to enlarge.I don't have a lot of time tonight so this is just a quick post of some updated charts with a few summaries of some key features of the influenza A(H7N9) virus situation in south-eastern China. At writing it was at 432 detections with media reporting 128 deathsClick on image...

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If this is what MERS-CoV detections look like with more testing...what is the "normal" community level of virus?? [UPDATED]

The bar along the top depict how much time passed between each 100 cases.Click on chart to enlarge.For a virus that is chugging along without the aid of any new genetic changes, and perhaps showing up more often (a) because of enhanced testing and/or (b) because of a large-scale breakdown...

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MERS-CoV genomes remain stable amid Jeddah outbreak cases... [UPDATED]

Thanks to Prof Christian Drosten for answering a major question about the sudden large rise in Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus cases. He did so in an email some hour back.Based on 3 genome sequences from 30 samples that Prof Drosten has been working with, no significant changes in the genome of Jeddah variants could be seen compared to previous sequences. The spike gene, a likely indicator...

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