MERS risk reduction and signs of illness to watch for during hajj and umrah...

I love a good infographic and this one ticks a lot of boxes for getting a clear message out about the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) disease and how to avoid catching and spreading the MERS-coronavirus (MERS-CoV).Thanks World Health Organization.World Health Organization poster describing risk...

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To the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health: A request for missing data on retrospective MERS-CoV detections

From: Ian M MackayTo: The Office of the Minister of Health, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaI write to humbly ask for your help on a matter of infectious disease communication. I ask that you please consider completing the already near-complete public data picture for all retrospectively confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) that have occurred on your soil. I ask that this...

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Updating a model of a modern Ebola epidemic...

Professor David Fisman, University of Toronto, Canada published one of the excellent recent models designed to estimate where Ebola virus disease case numbers might be heading.[1] He has updated his model using the latest World Health Organization EVD data that includes up to 13-Sept.This morning...

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Happy 2nd birthday Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)...

Its been 2-years since Prof. Ali Mohamed Zaki sent his email to ProMED notifying them of a novel coronavirus. That email was published 20-Sept 2012.[1] A year ago we had 138 cases and 58 deaths. Today we have 856 cases with perhaps 306 fatal (36%).I won't rehash what I said a year ago - I invite...

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The proportion of fatal cases (PFC)...

This is excerpted and altered a little, from a more influenza A(H7N9) virus slanted article to be found here. But I think it deserves its own page.In July 2013 I coined a term on VDU to avoid the use of the term Case Fatality Ratio/Rate/Risk (CFR). My term was the Proportion of Fatal Cases (PFC). I use the term on VDU and have published it an article.[1] I have no expectations that anyone else...

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