• FluTrackers.com Inc. does not provide medical advice. Information on this web site is collected from various internet resources, and the FluTrackers board of directors makes no warranty to the safety, efficacy, correctness or completeness of the information posted on this site by any author or poster. The information collated here is for instructional and/or discussion purposes only and is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, or other medical condition. Every individual reader or poster should seek advice from their personal physician/healthcare practitioner before considering or using any interventions that are discussed on this website. By continuing to access this website you agree to consult your personal physican before using any interventions posted on this website, and you agree to hold harmless FluTrackers.com Inc., the board of directors, the members, and all authors and posters for any effects from use of any medication, supplement, vitamin or other substance, device, intervention, etc. mentioned in posts on this website, or other internet venues referenced in posts on this website.
  • We are not asking for any donations. Do not donate to any entity who says they are raising funds for us.

The Lancet Infect Dis. Is MERS another SARS?

Giuseppe

Emeritus
[Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases, full page: (LINK). Extract.]


The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Early Online Publication, 26 July 2013
doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70159-2

Copyright ? 2013 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.

Is MERS another SARS?

Original Text

Christian Drosten a


In September, 2012, two fatal cases of a novel coronavirus (CoV) infection were reported: a Saudi patient who was diagnosed in Saudi Arabia, and a Qatari patient who was diagnosed in the UK. Symptoms of this transmissible respiratory disease?known as Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)?are severe. In The Lancet Infectious Diseases , Abdullah Assiri and colleagues provide a clinical synopsis of 47 cases of MERS-CoV infection identified between September, 2012, and June, 2013, in Saudi Arabia. ...

(?)

________

a Institute of Virology, University of Bonn Medical Centre, Bonn, Germany


-
-------
 
Back
Top