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

(WHO) WHO has been informed of four (4) additional laboratory-confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia. The first case is a 41 year-old female healthcare worker from Riyadh with no known underlying medical conditions and who became ill on 15 August, 2013. Her condition deteriorated and she passed away  Read More »

Syria’s neighbours fear biological weapons attack

(Telegraph) While the world has focused on Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons, Middle Eastern intelligence agencies have growing concerns about the country’s biological arsenal, according to the Washington Post. Hafez al-Assad, the father of Bashar, initiated the country’s research into biological weapons while president in the 1980s and the current regime is thought to have  Read More »

Are Syria’s cluster bombs and bioweapons worse than its chemical weapons?

(TheWeek) Secretary of State John Kerry swears that U.S. intelligence is confident that the Syrian government used sarin gas to kill 1,429 people in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. And Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has plenty more where that came from. The Syrian government runs the most advanced chemical weapons program in the developing world,  Read More »

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 »

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 »

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