RE: MERS-Cov17 Oct 2023 19:17
"No danger to the world" says epidemiologist Dr. Daneeka.
Meanwhile, the WHO on 29 August 2023 reported that:
"Human-to-human transmission of MERS-CoV in healthcare settings has been associated with delays in recognizing the early symptoms of MERS-CoV infection, slow triage of suspected cases, and delays in implementing infection, prevention, and control (IPC) measures.
The crude case fatality rate for Mers is 36%."
The threat is not about proximity to camel populations or today, it's about a day in the future when some hospital ward starts to fill with patients in pulmonary distress, as happened without warning in China and Lombardy in the first days of Covid. Remember how UK gov were stating the little known virus caught from bats, was "very low risk"? Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Any data Synairgen has on SNG001's efficacy against Mers should be seen as a positive, something that could prove useful in a future pandemic. As Alpha-dog wisely notes "The nightmare scenario though is MERS and Covid co-infection in an immunocompromised individual with potential for a chimera, a hybrid with MERS pathogenicity and Covid 19 transmissibility".