Indiana governor & CDC joint media conference on USA coronavirus MERS case - May 5, 2014 - FluTrackers "Storify"

[sharon sanders]

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Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 10m
Press conference on #MERS now finished.

FluTrackers.com @FluTrackers ? 1m
#USA - @WHO confirmation report of 1st known #coronavirus #MERS case in US http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?p=533923#post533923 ? @ironorehopper

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape ? 9m
If you've been to Arabian peninsula and you have #MERS symptoms, best call health care provider let them know, so they can arrange.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 10m
CDC: Federal Government will continue to monitor #MERS as long as it needs to. #INDIANA is "here 'til it's done."

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 11m
Comm Health Doc: #MERS incubation period is 2-14 days with an average of 5 days.

FluTrackers.com @FluTrackers ? 10m
We officially ask the @CDCgov to widely distribute #coronavirus #MERS sequence info in no membership required GenBank. Thanks

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 12m
CDC: If #MERS virus continues to infect people in Middle East, would not be surprising if we have another importation in US.

Helen Branswell @HelenBranswell ? 14m
2/2 this would suggest there are (or where) unidentified #MERS cases in the hospital where he worked. #MERS

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 13m
CDC: No travel restrictions between US and Saudi Arabia because of this #MERS case, no changes to travel guidelines.

FluTrackers.com @FluTrackers ? 13m
@HelenBranswell @kakape Hope the sequence is widely distributed and placed in no membership required GenBank.

Helen Branswell @HelenBranswell ? 15m
My question! RT @kakape: Will there be sequence data of virus? No clear answer from CDC. I cannot imagine them not sequencing it. #MERS

Helen Branswell @HelenBranswell ? 16m
First US #MERS case works at a hospital in Riyadh, #KSA. He does not remember contact with a MERS case. Unless he caught from source 1/2

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 16m
CDC: #MERS patient was in #Munster for planned visit with family.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 19m
CDC: definition of close contact is "caring for a patient, more than a single incidental event." Suspect Contact with Respiratory Droplets

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 19m
CDC: #MERS has gone person-to-person but only among close contact. No evidence it's gone beyond that.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 20m
Comm. Hospital Doc: #MERS virus - flu like symptoms - fever, cough, shortness of breath. Some patients have diarrhea (rare).

Helen Branswell @HelenBranswell ? 21m
Good news that there are no signs yet of spread from the first US #MERS patients. But it is too soon to say no local spread has occurred.

Helen Branswell @HelenBranswell ? 23m
But because incubation period of #MERS is out to 14 days, healthcare workers will be tested later to make sure infection didn't occur 2/2

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 22m
Comm. Hospital Doc: Respiratory and contact isolation includes mask, gown, gloves and eye protection for #MERS virus.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 23m
CDC: There is a possibility that viruses may mutate over time and become more dangerous, No evidence #MERS virus has done that.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 24m
Comm Hospital Doc: Patient arrived at hospital on his on accord with family.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 25m
Comm Hospital Doc: Patient was always in a private room, placed in isolation the day after he arrived at hospital.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 25m
Community Hospital: About 50 employees had contact with patient prior to him being put in full isolation. All have tested negative for #MERS

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 26m
CDC: #MERS patient was working in Saudi Arabia hospital -- didn't work directly with #MERS patients, but #MERS patients were at hospital.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 27m
Comm. Hospital Doc: workers recognized #MERS quickly because they asked patient the right questions.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 31m
CDC: 100 people on plane and 10 people on bus with infected patient. Have reached 75% of them for #MERS follow up

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 32m
CDC: working w/ health depts from around country to contact passengers on plane and bus with infected #MERS patient. Have reached 75%.

Kelli Stopczynski @KelliWSBT ? 36m
Gov. Pence speaking now ab #MERS

 

[Giuseppe]

Re: Indiana governor & CDC joint media conference on USA coronavirus MERS case - May 5, 2014 - FluTrackers "Storify"

WHO update said that first signs of illness appeared for this patient on April 14 with a mild fever without respiratory symptoms.

See full report: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2014_05_05_mers/en/

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He began feeling unwell on or around 14 April 2014 with a low-grade fever without any respiratory symptoms.

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