The West African region epidemic (top map), including countries with imported cases and the totals from past Ebola virus disease outbreaks and the few imported monkey cases (the US & Philippines [hence zero human cases]) plotted by total numbers and country (bottom map).These maps are best viewed alongside my Ebola virus disease numbers page found here.The WHO create multi-page Situation...
Mucking about with MERS and maps...
Yes, some more of that stuff with the Tableau presentation stuff.This one shows the MERS-CoV cases on a map by the region they were most likely acquired in. So that means it doesn't show all the site to which cases arrived via export, just their likeliest point of origin.Because we have no individual case details about the 113 "found" Saudi Arabian cases from 3-June, I've taken some liberties using...
Words of wisdom from a Master....
Prof Vincent Racaniello (he of the TWiV netcasts and Virology blog) took another step towards being the Yoda of contemporary virology communication using social media.Earlier this morning (my time), while live Tweeting from the Australian Society for Microbiology's (#2014ASM) annual meeting in Melbourne, Prof Racaniello imparted these words of wisdom. This came out during a Tweet exchange...
MERS-CoV in June/July...
Looks like MERS-CoV cases, while few in number, remain well distributed across nearly all of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia still.With such a remarkably widespread distribution one must ask, where are these cases coming from? In the absence of any noted hospital outbreaks, do we assume that they...
