Testing for Middle
Eastern Respiratory Syndrome has been frustrated, the Saudis say, by a patent granted to the Dutch discoverers of the new coronavirus
During last year's outbreak of Middle East
respiratory syndrome in South Korea, about 20 percent of hospital patients in close contact with a single MERS case, known as Patient 14, contracted the disease, South Korean researchers found after reviewing medical records and security footage.
Yesterday, director Li Liming of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned, along with several lower - ranking officials, after a report by a panel of experts blamed China's most recent outbreak of severe acute
respiratory syndrome on a series of flaws at the CDC's National Institute of Virology in southern Beijing.
Their findings are published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases in the article «Elucidating Transmission Patterns From Internet Reports: Ebola and Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome as Case Studies.»
This makes asthma a series
of respiratory syndromes that can be difficult to study and treat and personalized therapeutic management is needed to achieve the best outcomes, according to the researchers.
To test the reliability of alternative data streams, researchers tracked and analyzed reports from public health authorities and reputable media outlets posted via social media or their websites during the 2014 - 2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the 2015 Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in South Korea.
This delay has especially angered Chinese citizens, and it is reminiscent of the government's approach during the severe acute
respiratory syndrome epidemic in 2003.
The South Korean government launched the stimulus spending after an outbreak of Middle East
respiratory syndrome cut heavily into tourism and consumer spending in the second quarter.
Nuclear magnetic resonance structure of the nucleic acid - binding domain of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus nonstructural protein 3.
The virus is similar to the Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome virus, SARS CoV, that caused hundreds of deaths in China in 2002 and 2003.
A researcher from the Pasteur Institute Korea in Seoul brought samples taken during the country's outbreak of Middle East
respiratory syndrome on an intercontinental flight last year without the appropriate paperwork, hoping to get them studied at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
Feasibility, safety, clinical, and laboratory effects of convalescent plasma therapy for patients with Middle
East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection: a study protocol.
Deals in the secondary market, as represented by Midland's 35 key housing estates, hit a low of 41 per week, 40 per cent fewer than in the first quarter of 2003 during the outbreak of severe acute
respiratory syndrome.
In late 2002 and early 2003, the global organization — recently spun off from Bass Group — faced bloated overhead costs in the competitive hotel industry, experienced a decline in business and vacation travel because of the worldwide economic downturn and the spread of severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS), underwent a brand name change (from Six Continents), and battled a hostile takeover attempt by British entrepreneur Hugh Osmond.
The slowdown was evident prior to the outbreak of Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and was most evident in consumption growth.
He said among them were the outbreak of Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003; Avian flu in 2005 and Ebola in 2014.
Severe acute
respiratory syndrome, or SARS, is caused by a type of coronavirus.
The South Korea outbreak of Middle East
respiratory syndrome, or MERS, is the largest yet seen outside the Middle East.
Previous studies of MERS outbreaks in early 2014 estimated the infective potential at between 2 and 6.7 in Saudi Arabia, similar to the numbers for severe acute
respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which has an infective potential of between 2 and 4.
The Federal Aviation Administration established the center in 2004 under a Congressional directive to study air quality problems in airline cabins in the wake of the previous year's severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Asia, which later spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America and Europe.
Veterinarian Hasan Alkaf, left, takes samples from a camel during the first reported Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS - CoV) case in Haramout, Yemen in April 2014.
One has only to look back a few years to the 2003 scare over SARS (severe acute
respiratory syndrome), which ended up causing about 774 deaths worldwide, for a recent measure of the potential for global pandemic panic.
A crowded stall in Guangdong is where the virus that causes severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) jumped from an animal, probably a civet cat, into a human in 2003.
But the first documented human cases of SARS, or severe acute
respiratory syndrome, emerged 100 kilometers from the pig farms hit by SADS.
That geography was enshrined this week in a name for the virus proposed by the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses: Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus.
The new test could be used to detect outbreaks of deadly viruses such as Ebola, Marburg and severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS), as well as more routine viruses, including rotavirus and norovirus, both of which cause severe gastrointestinal infections.
Called gain - of - function experiments, the studies aim to understand genetic changes that can make viruses such as bird flu, SARS (severe acute
respiratory syndrome), and MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) more transmissible from person to person.
He has examined the impact of people's movements and interactions (called dynamic social networks) on the spread of Ebola, severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS), and smallpox.
Unfortunately for him and for many other people, he had picked up severe acute
respiratory syndrome, or SARS — perhaps directly from an infected bat or from a small, arboreal mammal called a civet, common in one of Guangdong's famous «wet markets» that sell wild animals for food, or else from a person or chain of people ultimately infected from one of those animal sources.
Porcine reproductive and
respiratory syndrome virus is one of the latest examples of a condition that scientists believe they can beat with genetic engineering, and one that's caught up in a disagreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over how quickly such methods should be approved, and by whom.
In the last 10 years, outbreaks of potentially pandemic influenza, Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, Ebola, and Zika have threatened populations around the world.
► For a Tuesday ScienceInsider post, Kai Kupferschmidt interviewed Christian Drosten, a virologist at the University of Bonn in Germany, who is «among those leading the effort to understand Middle East
respiratory syndrome (MERS) and contain the disease.»
The newly deciphered genome of the pathogen responsible for severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS) suggests that the virus is the product of a long and private evolutionary history.
Aside from well - established things like rabies virus, SARS coronavirus (the virus that causes severe acute
respiratory syndrome) and Marburg virus (an extremely dangerous but rare hemorrhagic fever pathogen), bats appear to carry a plethora of other germs with unclear effects on human health, if any.
Genetic fragments of MERS, the Middle East
respiratory syndrome coronavirus, have been detected in the air of a Saudia Arabian camel barn.
Middle East
respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS - CoV) infections have led to an ongoing outbreak in humans, which was fueled by multiple zoonotic MERS - CoV introductions from dromedary camels.
Scientists at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute have identified natural human antibodies against the virus that causes Middle East
Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a step toward developing treatments for the newly emerging and often - fatal disease..
In a move that may end more than 7 months of confusion, an international group of scientists and public health officials will soon recommend that the new virus be called Middle East
respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS - CoV).
Phrases with «respiratory syndrome»