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This week will mark the one-year anniversary of our learning about the MERS Coronavirus (then named nCoV), and today Helen Branswell of the Canadian Press takes a sobering look at how much we knew about the 2003 SARS coronavirus one-year on, compared to how much we know about this new emerging pathogen.
The current knowledge gap with MERS-CoV, and the continued parsimonious doling out of information from Saudi Arabia, has many researchers visibly concerned.
Helen brings us reactions from CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm, Dr. Larry Anderson who led the CDC’s SARS research a decade ago, Dr. Mark Pallansch of the CDS’s MERS task force, Dr. Tony Mounts of the World Health Organization, and others – making her report the `must read’ of the day.
One year later, MERS virus remains largely a mystery
By Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press September 16, 2013 1:01 PM
TORONTO — A year after SARS hit the world’s radar, scads had been learned about the virus that set off outbreaks in China, Hong Kong, Toronto and other spots, and ignited panic far beyond the affected centres.
