Uh,oh! MERS Virus Found in Camel Milk

[Grant]

http://news.sciencemag.org/asiapacific/ ... camel-milk

"The new findings come from a group of researchers at Qatar's Supreme Council of Health; the country's Ministry of Environment; Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. They were announced at a press conference in Doha on Wednesday, and a paper about them was submitted to the journal Eurosurveillance today, says Erasmus MC virologist Chantal Reusken, the first author.

The researchers also discovered that almost one in 10 people who come in contact with camels on the job have antibodies against MERS, a sign that they were infected with the virus at some point—although none of them got very sick from it.

Almost 2 years after MERS emerged, it's still unclear how many of the patients become infected. Direct transmission between people occurs, and many of the more than 500 new MERS cases that Saudi Arabia has reported in the past 3 months appear to have occurred in hospitals as a result of inadequate infection control measures. But there isn't evidence yet of widespread human-to-human transmission outside hospitals. And researchers have uncovered more and more evidence that contact with dromedary camels may be a risk factor for getting MERS. Camels in nine countries in the Middle East and Africa have been shown to be infected with MERS, and the virus appears to jump from camels to people, researchers have reported. But where and how it crosses the species barrier is still very unclear."

[Hodan94]

nonsense our ancestors drank camel milk from day 1

no such thing as MERS. Europeans are such picky eaters/drinkers.

[Jeffo]

nonsense our ancestors drank camel milk from day 1

no such thing as MERS. Europeans are such picky eaters/drinkers.

Its a new virus that our ancestors never encountered.

Tracks the amount of people who were infected and if they survived or not----> http://coronamap.com/

[amin7x]

nonsense our ancestors drank camel milk from day 1

no such thing as MERS. Europeans are such picky eaters/drinkers.

actually our ancestors kept cattle. it was the arabs who brought camels to Somalia about 1000 years ago when islam was being spread

[YummyMummy]

What are the symptoms of this pathogen and what cells does the virus target? What is the lifecycle of the disease? I'm really interested but there's a lack of info about the virus.

[Grant]

Have you tried the CDC site? Some of this seems to have been updated in May.

http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/

[gurey25]

mers is just the flu,
regular flu kills hundred times more people every year than all the fancy new strains like bird flu, swine flu or mers.
i call bullshit on the whole bruhaha..

i collegue at work had the swine flu back in 2009.
he had a fever and flue symptoms called in sick but recoverd fully in 24 hours.
he only went to the doctor to get the sick leave certificate to show he was sick.
the next day he was at work sitting next to me when the doctor called him and told him he had swine flu.

24 friggin hours ?? when i get the flu i am bed ridden for at least 3 days sometimes more

[YummyMummy]

Gurey you have man flu dee inaabti

[gurey25]

yeah thats what my wife calls it.

but alxamdulilah i only get it once a year.

[YummyMummy]

alxamdulillah I work though mine. Alxamdulillah the only thing that completely knocks me out is the peak of my migraines. Migraines are brutal!

[gurey25]

try l-arginine supplement, it opens uo your blood vessels , improves circulation and can reduce migraines.
even better the right strain of weed would be the best ,

[YummyMummy]

Weed? Wali nolosha kaman dhicin sxb, I'll call on you when that happens

[gurey25]

panadol , neurophen and asprin are far more dangerous to your liver and kidneys than weed.
and they dont work effectively against migraines..

i guess you should try the l-arginine, and lots of ginger daily

[Basra-]

gurey


the reason u take a long time to recover from flu is because your immune system is compromised.

[gurey25]

Alxamdulilah my immune system is fine im usually the last one to get sick.


once a year is not bad