RE: MERS-Cov17 Oct 2023 23:21
Like I say I'm not going to attempt to re-educate you on this Fruits. If the sum of your erudition is cutting and pasting ( as it usually is) it'd be a wasted effort. But for the board .... Less than 1000 deaths in 11 years - cases connected entirely and specificially to dromedaries and the people who herd them and drink their milk. And almost entirely in Saudi. It has left the shores a couple of times but was easily contained except for one large outbreak in South Korea. It does not transmit except in very close contact despite the apparent high fatality rate of 36% which is almost certainly an over estimate (says the WHO ) as this only counts confirmed cases and there aren't many labs in the Rub' al Khali. And recent changes in diagnostic tests on entrance to hospitals, isolation and masking have all reduced significantly the in-hospital transmission that charactterised it for most of its 11 years.
SNG may have performed well against it in a petri dish - but I'd say the odds of a) MERS getting loose and then b) SNG being called upon, are somewhere in the region of 4 billion to one.
It's niche niche is MERS - and thank the lord for that at least.
"Between 13 September 2022 to 12 August 2023, the Ministry of Health of KSA reported three additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), with two associated deaths. The cases were reported from Riyadh, Asser, and Makkah Al Mukarramah regions. Laboratory confirmation of the cases was performed by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).
All three cases were non-health-care workers, who presented with fever, cough, and shortness of breath, and had comorbidities. Of the three cases, two had a history of contact with dromedary camels and all three cases had a history of consumption of raw camel milk in the 14 days prior to the onset of symptoms. "
If we're bored - let's talk about something interesting like the Covid Inquiry