The fifth I give you...[UPDATED]

Senegal. According to it's Minister of Health, Awa Marie Coll Seck[1,2], a case of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been imported from Guinea and it is confirmed by testing at the World Health Organization's collaboration Centre, the Pasteur Institute in Dakar.Interesting that this occurred one week...

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MERS-CoV around the house-yes, it does transmit at home

Click on graph to enlarge.Some Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) questions remain stubbornly unanswered even after two and a half years.Today comes a study from Prof Christian Drosten and colleagues, including Prof Ziad Memish, released by the New England Journal...

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The battle of Ebola gains a second front...the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC; formerly Zaire) [UPDATE #3]

So there are three reasons for this post. It may be a little while before we get solid confirmed information from the DRC and I think maps are useful for those of us who are ignorant of where countries live! [See below for update from WHO]I'm looking for a quick post so I can move the previous...

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Fake/wrong Ebola virus disease images...

As if there isn't enough misery in the world that we need add false imagery to the mix.Fake or hoax or just plain misunderstood images purporting to be from cases of Ebola virus disease are everywhere at the moment. The ones below are images I see regularly in the #ebola Twitter stream. I had once...

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