"The Silence of MERS" - MERS-CoV cases continue to climb.

"The Silence of MERS" - MERS-CoV cases continue to climb.HT: Croft.

On his VDU's blog, Dr. Ian Mackay writes: MERS-CoV cases continue to climb. Click through to see the chart he refers to.

The latest chart of Middle East coronavirus case spikes by week combined with the accumulating tally of cases.

This paints a picture of unrelenting case growth. The curve took a sharp turn upwards in April and hasn't slowed since. This is in marked contrast to influenza A(H7N9) virus cases which were brought to a screeching halt in south east China earlier in the year.

Saudi Arabia: A note from a MERS hospital

 This morning I got a comment about my memo to the Minister of Health—not from the Minister, but from a doctor who has asked me not use his name. It's an important document, and I'm giving it a post of its own:

I totally agree with this letter and recommendations. We need to disclose the current situation and find out a way to report the cases using clear screening guidelines or even to declare the need for international help.

I wonder why we do not involve people who faced SARS a decade ago to hear from their experience. Hajj is coming where 2-3 million Muslims will come to Saudi Arabia to gather in one place for few days! Then they will go back to their countries! What are the precautions that we took in action? (Not clear) 

As a medical staff I feel embarrassed with the performance of Ministry of Health so far and I feel unsafe from acquiring the virus based on the current actions. I am writing this reply while one of our residents in ICU with MERS and one ER nurse declared dead in the same hospital this week.

In fairness to the Ministry, it invited Dr. Allison McGeer from Canada, who gained a great deal of experience with SARS, to be part of a three-person team advising the Ministry on MERS late in the spring. But I'm grateful that this doctor is in touch, and I hope he'll write again; it's invaluable to have a sense of how healthcare workers are dealing with MERS in their own hospitals.

Saudi Arabia: Four new MERS cases; 3 are asymptomatic

Thanks to DesCellBio for tweeting the link to the Arabic site of the KISA, which Google Translate renders as: Health) announce (4) cases of infection Corona new...Riyadh and the city. This brings the Saudis' total to 100 cases, 47 of them fatal. It's notable that three of the cases (one a healthcare worker) don't show symptoms. Presumably they were tested as contacts of confirmed cases. The full report:

Continued within the follow-up work and investigation carried out by the Ministry of Health virus (Corona) The new strain of the Middle East's syndrome respiratory (MERS-COV, has declared for the registration of (4) four new cases of the virus. 

First of a citizen at the age of (22) years, Mkhalt to confirmed infected with the virus, and in Medina, it did not show symptoms. 

The second case is a citizen at the age of 24 years, working in the health sector in Medina, as well as it did not show symptoms. 

The third case of a citizen at the age of 60 years area Riyadh, Mkhalt to confirmed infected, it did not show symptoms as well 

The fourth case is a citizen at the age of 47 years area Riyadh, Mkhalt to confirmed infected, and in stable condition, thankfully.
We ask God Almighty to heal the injured and Yemen They wellbeing.