Officials said today that a 41-year-old Filipino nurse who worked in Saudi Arabia has died of MERS.
The incidence of meningitis in areas covered by a 2011 vaccination campaign was 94% lower a year later compared with nonvaccinated regions of Chad in sub-Saharan Africa, a new study found.
The new cases all involved contact with previously confirmed case-patients.
Using reverse genetics, Spanish researchers have created a full-length DNA clone of the MERS-CoV virus that could be used as a vaccine candidate and to study characteristics of the virus, the team reported today in mBio, published by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
Saudi Arabia has now reported 12 cases in 3 days, and experts show mixed levels of concern.
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) report that a small study in macaques has shown promise of using a two-drug combination against infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according to study findings published yesterday in Nature Medicine.
Four more MERS cases, two fatal, were reported today in Saudi Arabia.
Blood tests indicate that many Middle East camels may have been exposed to MERS-CoV.
A 56-year-old woman in Qatar died of MERS, the country's third case in a month.
In a pair of puzzling statements, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) on Sep 1 reported the recovery of four patients from Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections, though two of them had previously been described as asymptomatic.
