Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

First Camels- Now Bats?

By |2017-02-10T09:50:10-07:00September 6th, 2013|General|

MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus) is back in the news again this week. Two weeks ago, I mentioned The Lancet study that identified the potential link between dromedary camels and MERS. Last week, a new animal has been found with a potential link to MERS… the bat.  An article in Emerging Infectious Diseases describes a study [...]

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Camelus dromedarius & Our State Public Health Lab

By |2017-02-10T09:50:12-07:00August 16th, 2013|General|

Last year, a new SARS-like virus called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) broke out in Saudi Arabia. Since then, 94 cases of the very lethal disease have been reported by the World Health Organization (50% of the cases have been fatal).  All the cases have been on the Arabian Peninsula.  The virus causes severe [...]

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