Saturday, August 24, 2013

MERS - Saudi reluctance to share more information has become a global health hazard.


MERS - Saudi reluctance to share more information has become a global health hazard.HT: Croft.

If you're following Flublogia's MERS posts, and the #MERS hashtag, you're already very aware of the Saudi government's reticence about cases. 
With the kingdom as the epicentre of the outbreak, Saudi reluctance to share more information has become a global health hazard

To paraphrase Lady Bracknell: To lose a few MERS cases may be considered a misfortune; to lose count of those cases begins to look like carelessness.
We have the consolation of this remarkable list of MERS-Cases/data/cases.csv at gh-pages · rambaut/MERS-Cases · GitHub
The compiler is Andrew Rambaut, whom I am now following with great interest. (He also posts at epidemic, a blog I'm adding to my Bloggers list forthwith.)
The Rambaut list makes more sense of the progress of MERS than anything else I've seen, and also shows the alarming gaps in our knowledge of the Saudi cases.

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