MERS-CoV snapdate on canaries...

MERS-CoV detections among healthcare workers (HCWs)HCWs are akin to the canary in the coal mine - when HCWs get sick with a particular bug, this can signal that the bug may well be more active in the the wider community. This graph looks at the canaries and suggest that there has been a relatively...

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MERS-CoV snapdate...

MERS-CoV detections by month and yearAs can be seen from the graph below, the peaks of MERS-CoV detection have been driven by humans and their infection prevention and control issues - but what maintains the virus in between those lapses? It seems clear that MERS-CoV is entrenched among camels...

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Case->outbreak->epidemic->publication->learn a lesson...repeat

The global cumulative curve of suspect+probable+confirmed cases EVD cases (orange) , suspect+probable+confirmed EVD deaths (red) and the confirmed cases (yellow dots) Updated from last WHO data posted 10JAN2015 AEST.Click on image to enlarge. When looking at the PubMed database search results for...

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