Adding in the recent MERS-CoV cases by chart...we're back to 2013

According to my personal list...Total cases globally: 714Total deaths globally: 225Proportion of fatal cases (PFC): 31.5%My data still do not include the found113 cases, reported by the Command & Control Centre of the Ministry of Health (MOH) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA; gasp) 3-June...

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Back to 21 countries with MERS....still no party ensues

Well, it looks like some of us jumped the gun and did not tick all of our self-imposed quality assurance boxes. Yes, definitely including me.With the sample(s) from a Bangladeshi expatriate apparently testing negative at a second laboratory, the previous comments...

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Ebola Virus Disease: Country contributors in 2014 West African outbreak...

Data are based on WHO DONs (see latest, [1]). Lines use the numbers on the vertical  axis on the left. The percentages are the proportion of fatal cases at the time point indicated.Click on image to enlarge.As the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa continues [1], and grows larger,...

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West African Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak flares up in late May and in early June...[UPDATED]

Data are based on WHO DONs. Lines use the numbers on the vertical  axis on the left, bars use the right hand axis. The percentages are the proportion of fatal cases at the time point indicated.Click on chart to enlarge.The chart tells a pretty grim story of an outbreak that has flared up, after...

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Influenza in Queensland, Australia: 1-Jan (Week 1) to 8-June (Week 23)

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.Waaaay back on 18-March we looked at how influenza notifications in Queensland (population ~5mill) were above the 5-year-to-date (YTD) average. "Woopty...

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MERS-CoV detections by week...

Yeah, I got bored waiting. I finally came around to the fact that the data for MERS-CoV have always been so inconsistent that why worry about that now. So what about dates? I have no idea how long it will be until we see the WHO post data with dates for the hundreds of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...

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Epidemiology without dates is just -ology...

Click on image to enlarge.Data from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health MERS website.[1]The above images give an indication of what the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) considers to be case detail of immediate relevance to the public according to Prof. Tariq Madani, head...

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*POSSIBLY NOT* Country #22 to have been paid a visit by the MERS-CoV: Bangladesh [UPDATED x2]

Looking like this result could not be confirmed by external testing.June 20th The case, a 53-year old male (53M) returned to Dhaka, Bangladesh on 4-June from New York (the United States of America), via Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). He became symptomatic on 6-June and was hospitalized...

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