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New Infectious Diseases like MERS Remains a Major Threat

(Time) About a week and a half ago, I was lucky enough to be walking through San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on a purely perfect northern California summer day. I was thinking what I usually think whenever I visit the Bay Area: “Why don’t I live here?” (The BART transit strike that began the next Read More »

July 10, 2013
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, Biosafety, and Countermeasures
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NIH scientists assess history, pandemic potential of H7 influenza viruses

(EurekAlert) The emergence of a novel H7N9 avian influenza virus in humans in China has raised questions about its pandemic potential as well as that of related influenza viruses. In a commentary published online today, scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, address these Read More »

July 10, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, and International
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(WHO) The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Saudi Arabia has announced one additional laboratory-confirmed case and two deaths in previously confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia. The new case is a 56 year-old female from Hafr Al- Batin city, North-eastern region. She is a health care worker with Read More »

July 8, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, and International
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WHO To Convene MERS Virus Panel

(TheScientist) The World Health Organization (WHO) will convene an emergency committee on Tuesday (July 9) to determine whether a new coronavirus that is responsible for 42 deaths, mostly in Saudi Arabia, constitutes a “public health emergency of international concern,” according to Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s assistant director-general for Health and Environment, who announced the plan Read More »

July 8, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, and International
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(WHO) The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Saudi Arabia has announced two additional laboratory-confirmed cases and two deaths in previously confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia. The new cases are a 69 year-old male and a 66 year-old male from Riyadh. Both were admitted to hospital on the Read More »