Credit Dr. Ian Mackay VDU Blog
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Dr. Ian Mackay has five new charts, and a good many thoughts to share on this month-long acceleration in Saudi and UAE MERS virus detections in his VDU blog this morning. Ian covers a lot of territory, ranging from camel festivals to the rate of new infections to the importance of extensive testing when dealing with a new virus like MERS.
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Saturday, 26 April 2014
An update on the April outbreak of MERS-CoV...
We are in week 110 of the MERS-CoV outbreak event, that's 2.12 years and 386 cases including approximately 113 deaths (PFC of 29.3%, the lowest to date) since the first known cases became ill in Mar of 2012.
Just a few quick charts to keep track of things.Virus detections continue to accrue at a double-digit rate, as has been the case each day except 2 (one of which was blip) between 18-Apr and 25-Apr this year. Thanks mainly to the Jeddah outbreak (no more calling it a "cluster").
