The Department of Health and the inter-agency Task Force MERS-CoV have been trying to locate and contact over 200 passengers of the April 15 Etihad Airways flight EY0424 who have not been tested for the disease.
The virus MERS-CoV belongs to the genus Betacoronavirus and some researchers believe the virus is related to one found in the Egy. Epidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York city claims the virus isolated from the bat was a 100% match to the virus found in humans. But other researchers are not convinced that the fragment his team has identified confirms the presence of MERS-CoV. Chantal Reusken, an infectious-disease researcher at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in Bilthoven, the Netherlands, points to weaknesses in the data linking the bat virus to the MERS-CoV that infects humans. On April 17, 2014 a Saudi expert on the virus announced a link between the virus and camels, stating that a virus sample from a camel was a 100% match to that found in a Saudi patient.
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The virus MERS-CoV belongs to the genus Betacoronavirus and some researchers believe the virus is related to one found in the Egy. Epidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York city claims the virus isolated from the bat was a 100% match to the virus found in humans. But other researchers are not convinced that the fragment his team has identified confirms the presence of MERS-CoV. Chantal Reusken, an infectious-disease researcher at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in Bilthoven, the Netherlands, points to weaknesses in the data linking the bat virus to the MERS-CoV that infects humans. On April 17, 2014 a Saudi expert on the virus announced a link between the virus and camels, stating that a virus sample from a camel was a 100% match to that found in a Saudi patient.
ptian tomb bat
More: wikipedia
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