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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(WHO) WHO has been informed of an additional four laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia. The first patient is a 55-year-old man with an underlying medical condition from Medina who became ill on 17 August 2013 and is currently hospitalised. The second patient is a 38-year-old man with Read More »

September 3, 2013
| Filed under Middle East, North America, International, and Public Health
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(WHO) WHO has been informed of an additional two laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Qatar. The patients include a 59-year old man with an underlying medical condition who became ill on 15 August 2013. He is currently hospitalised and is in stable condition. Preliminary epidemiological investigations reveal that the Read More »

August 30, 2013
| Filed under Middle East, North America, International, and Public Health
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The US is building a bioweapons lab in Kazakhstan

(Salon) In 1992, Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, a biologist from the Soviet Union, boarded a flight in Almaty, then Kazakhstan’s capital, for New York. When Dr. Alibekov—now known as Ken Alibek—sat down with the CIA, he had a terrifying secret to reveal: that bio weapons program the Soviet Union stopped in the 1980′s hadn’t actually stopped Read More »

August 30, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(WHO) WHO has been informed of an additional eight laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia. The cases include two men with underlying medical conditions from Riyadh who died, three women and one man, also from Riyadh, and two men from Asir region. Additionally, a previously laboratory-confirmed case from Read More »

August 29, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, International, and Public Health
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Uganda: High Alert Over Crimean Fever

(AllAfrica) The ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed the first death from the Congo Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) at Mulago hospital, since the outbreak was announced on August 16, 2013. According to a ministry statement, the 27-year-old female patient, a resident of Nansana, was admitted to Mulago on August 16, with febrile illness, severe anaemia, Read More »