1 of these papers is pretty much exactly like the other...[UPDATED #2]

This is a strange one. Today, a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) paper [2] came out and received a vast amount of media coverage. It seems as if all the other recent press, the camel kissing videos, camel advocates decrying the link between MERS-CoV and their beauties and camels being...

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MERS-CoV charting on hold after 113 new cases reported without details...[UPDATED]

With the announcement overnight that a bunch (133 detections including 92 fatal cases) of old laboratory confirmed MERS-CoV detection had been found, but without any specific data to identify them, I will not be posting any further MERS-related charts. I believe there is a big WHO Disease Outbreak News...

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MERS-CoV by week...good luck Professor Memish

We are now in the 116th week since MERS-CoV caused known illness in a  human; a week that has seen the loss of Professor Ziad Memish from the frontlines of the war on MERS. Thankfully it was not a physically fatal loss, but rather a "standing down". Not only is Prof. Memish...

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MERS-CoV detection and age...

Just a few different ways of looking at age of living and deceased MERS-CoV people, globally, since 20...

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The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005...

I've heard a lot about the IHR but I have not read the entire document. This post is just to note which States are considered to be a party to them and what they mean in general terms. A blog-friendly reformatted excerpt from the Foreward (highlighting is mine)..."The purpose and scope of...

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MERS-CoV detected in 21st country....no party ensues

Algeria has reported 2 cases of MERS-CoV infection among two men (66 and 59-years of age) returning from performing Umrah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).[1,2] No indication of any local transmission as yet. Seems the pilgrims arrived with signs and symptoms of disease so, as Crawford Kilian asks[6],...

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Mental Health Inequality in Chiapas, Mexico

This is the room where a man has been incarcerated for five years, without ever leaving.  I don't call him a patient because I didn't meet him personally, but his story churns my stomach.  He is somewhere around 60 years old, and developed schizophrenia when he was 18.  He was odd but...

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