# 8330
Yesterday, in relatively broad terms, I wrote about mBio: MERS-CoV In Saudi Arabian Camels. Today, Dr. Ian Mackay takes a deeper look at these findings in his VDU blog.
Follow the link below to read:
Dromedary camels are a host of MERS-CoV...
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Yes. Not a "MERS-CoV-like" virus or "something very closely related to but slightly different" from MERS-CoV. Camels. Are. A. Host.
There was already plenty of evidence to suggest this (see some of my previous posts on this linked below), and none to really dissuade me from thinking otherwise. And yesterday we saw a new paper by Ian Lipkin and his collaborating crew from King Saud University in Saudi Arabia that make this issue more obvious than ever.
So let's stop messing around. There is an elephant in the MERS-room...and its a camel!
(Continue . . .)
