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| Silently among us: Scientists worry about milder cases of MERS | |
| 2014-05-17 | |
| [Yahoo] Scientists leading the fight against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome say the next critical front will be understanding how the virus behaves in people with milder infections, who may be spreading the illness without being aware they have it. Establishing that may be critical to stopping the spread of MERS, which emerged in the Middle East in 2012 and has so far infected more than 500 patients in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... alone. It kills about 30 percent of those who are infected. It is becoming increasingly clear that people can be infected with MERS without developing severe respiratory disease, said Dr David Swerdlow, who heads the MERS response team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A CDC study published earlier this week looked at some of the first cases of MERS that occurred in Jordan in 2012. Initially, only two people in that outbreak were thought to have MERS. When CDC disease detectives used more sensitive tests that looked for MERS antibodies among hospital workers, they found another seven people had contracted MERS and survived it.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 As I understand the vectors of virus transmission, multiple low grade exposures should be as dangerous as a single 'hot' exposure. (The theory is, intensity of initial exposure is the key item.) Naturally, there's no 'double blind' tests on the subject, just recurring unexplained events that might be caused by pretty much anything. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-05-17 19:58 |