The ability of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) to infect small animal species may be restricted given the fact that mice, ferrets, and hamsters were shown to resist MERS-CoV infection. We inoculated rabbits with MERS-CoV. Although virus was detected in the lungs, neither significant histopathological changes nor clinical symptoms were observed. Infectious virus, however,...

Background: Since April 2012, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has been confirmed in 8 countries: France, Italy, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Kingdom (UK) and United Arab Emirates (UAE). Of 55 laboratory-confirmed cases, 31 were fatal for a case fatality rate of 56% (current CDC data June 7, 2013). Although no cases have been reported in the US as of June ...

To determine how long antibodies against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus persist, we measured long-term antibody responses among persons serologically positive or indeterminate after a 2012 outbreak in Jordan. Antibodies, including neutralizing antibodies, were detectable in 6 (86%) of 7 persons for at least 34 months after the outbreak.

Abstract In the anthropology of Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), there is an effort underway to decolonize field. This process taking shape in academic writing, institutions, field practices, among broader publics. It must arise from priorities region; it also builds on wider scholarship race, indigeneity, militarism. requires expansion bounds politics, consideration who can participate...