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16 being monitored in Los Angeles County for possible exposure to MERS From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: US -16 being monitored in LA County for possible exposure to MERS (nothing to see, move along). HT: CBSlocal. KCAL9 News has learned that as many...
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Saudi MERS death toll rises to 163 Health authorities in Saudi Arabia have reported three more fatalities from the MERS respiratory virus, taking the death toll in the world's worst-hit country to 163. The health ministry website also revealed on...
- Man Being Treated In A London Hospital For A Lethal 'sars-like' Mers Has Died
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: Man being treated in a London hospital for a lethal 'Sars-like' MERS has died. HT: AstuteBlogger.(Telegraph). "In the end his lungs were worn down, so secondary infection is the real problem. The virus effectively...
- New Virus Originated In The Middle East
A bit of a medical mystery and a deadly one: A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in...
- Wapo:sars-like Virus Has High Mortality Rate In Saudi Arabia, Specialists Say
A new virus responsible for an outbreak of respiratory illness in the Middle Eastmay be more deadly than SARS, according to a team of infectious disease specialists who recently investigated a set of cases in Saudi Arabia.Of 23 confirmed cases in...
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Scientists Say They Have Found A Way To Fight SARS And MERS
From Business Insider:
An international team of scientists say they have identified a compound that can fight coronaviruses, responsible for the SARS and MERS outbreaks, which currently have no cure.
Coronaviruses affected the upper and lower respiratory tracts in humans. They are the reason for up to a third of common colds.
A more severe strain of the virus, thought to have come from bats, triggered the global SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic in 2002 that killed nearly 800 people.
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a new strain discovered in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and thought to have originated in camels. More deadly but less contagious, it has so far killed 193 people across 636 confirmed cases.
But now a team of scientists led by Edward Trybala from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and Volker Thiel from the University of Bern have discovered a compound called K22, which appears to block the ability of the virus to spread in humans.
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16 being monitored in Los Angeles County for possible exposure to MERS From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: US -16 being monitored in LA County for possible exposure to MERS (nothing to see, move along). HT: CBSlocal. KCAL9 News has learned that as many...
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Saudi MERS death toll rises to 163 Health authorities in Saudi Arabia have reported three more fatalities from the MERS respiratory virus, taking the death toll in the world's worst-hit country to 163. The health ministry website also revealed on...
- Man Being Treated In A London Hospital For A Lethal 'sars-like' Mers Has Died
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: Man being treated in a London hospital for a lethal 'Sars-like' MERS has died. HT: AstuteBlogger.(Telegraph). "In the end his lungs were worn down, so secondary infection is the real problem. The virus effectively...
- New Virus Originated In The Middle East
A bit of a medical mystery and a deadly one: A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in...
- Wapo:sars-like Virus Has High Mortality Rate In Saudi Arabia, Specialists Say
A new virus responsible for an outbreak of respiratory illness in the Middle Eastmay be more deadly than SARS, according to a team of infectious disease specialists who recently investigated a set of cases in Saudi Arabia.Of 23 confirmed cases in...