RE: UK Life Sciences Innovator 202331 Jan 2023 18:04
Come off it Fruits you're being ludicrously pedantic. A disease can have a 90% fatality rate but if nobody catches it and MERS really is almost impossible to catch without being a camelherder - or a camel farmer's girlfriend then it's not a danger to anyone.
Titania was suggesting - as she did during the World Cup - that Mers is or might be a current danger. It just isn't - and if you accuse me of picking a low period - your 2012 headline spins a really false narrative, as the total global deaths from 2012 to 2022 is 935, which means just 135 extra deaths in the 10 years after the outbreak began. 13 and a half a year, and all but 99 of the deaths in Saudi Arabia.
"From April 2012 till December 2022, a total of 2603 laboratory-confirmed cases of
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) were reported globally, with 935 associated
deaths at a case-fatality ratio (CFR) of 36%. The majority of these cases were reported
from Saudi Arabia, with 2194 cases and 854 related deaths