mers chart cdc Posted on 05/18/2014 9:55:36 AM PDT by blam
Lauren F Friedman
May 16, 2014, 1:01 PM
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), an often deadly respiratory illness that's related to the infamous SARS, first emerged in humans in Saudi Arabia in 2012. (Scientists believe it jumped from camels.) But since March 2014, there's been a sharp rise in the number of cases, including two recently diagnosed MERS patients in the United States.
"With more deaths in a single month than in the previous two years combined, no one is certain how people become infected," notes Marjorie P. Pollack, of ProMED-mail, and the virus has no vaccine or cure.
Here's what you should know about MERS — and why people around the world are watching it so closely.
There have been a minimum of 536 MERS cases and 145 deaths. That doesn't seem like a lot, but the vast majority have been reported since April:
mers chart cdc
The numbers reported on the more frequently updated MERS Corona Map are 594 infections and 178 deaths, though not all of those have been confirmed by international health organizations. The largest cluster of cases by far is in Saudi Arabia, with another large cluster in the United Arab Emirates.
MERS is spreading from its hub in the Arabian Peninsula.
mers world map cdc
The presence of MERS has now been confirmed in Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the United Kingdom, Tunisia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Just recently, the Netherlands and the United States joined this unfortunately growing list.
The CDC is taking note of the major points of entry for travelers coming from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates:
mers points of entry map cdc CDC/BioMosaic
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Right on re the vitamin C. See my post #41, this thread.
I think a tent city on the grounds of 1600 PA Ave would be the proper place to quarantine them. And Moosechell could serve ‘em tea a d crumpets every afternoon.
Seems the U.s. Has two forms of mers infection now, the first one which destroyed the trust of Americans ability to own clear titles to their property.
I take vit c too & betaglucan at first sign of illness. . As to cytokine floods is there documentation that they’re associated with this virus?
Hospitals, doctors offices are the first place besides school viruses spread, then you can add ships into the mix. I don’t care if they are commercial or Military, they are a closed society for that time frame.
I bleach wipe the hospital room down when hubby had to go in. Knock on wood, he has not picked up any staff infections.
You cannot drag a dirty bucket of mop water room to room even with disinfectant in it, and expect to disinfect a room, much less a whole floor ward. Clean water for each room should be the rule
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24077366
Go to this link.
“The high mortality associated with the novel Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has raised questions about the possible role of a cytokine storm in its pathogenesis. Although recent studies showed that MERS-CoV infection is associated with an attenuated IFN response, no induction of inflammatory cytokines was demonstrated during the early phase of infection.”
It is a safe bet that articles titled “... here’s what you need to know” are followed by many things, none of which, unfortunately, are what you actually need to know.
5000 IU of D a day for me.
As long as I don’t get too sleep deprived—and I haven’t let that happen in years—I simply don’t get sick.
You forgot SWAT Teams run by the women who hand out parking tickets...Social Security's Army - with enough bullets to kill all of us several times over..
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