German HCoV-EMC local transmission (MERS-CoV)

Posted onAuthorIan M Mackay, PhD (EIC)

A 2nd case of the most recently identified HCoV, HCoV-EMC (later to be called MERS-CoV), was reported on ProMED in Germany. The Robert Koch Institute notes that there is still no evidence of continuous human-to-human transmission.

A schematic of a MERS-CoV virion, labelling the proteins, such as Spike, and the single-stranded RNA nucleic acid genome.

[VDU’s first blog post was about MERS-CoV!]8

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  1. This post from 27MAR2013 was originally published on my old blog platform, virologydownunder.blogspot.com.au. It has now been moved to here.

Updates

  1. 23OCT2026. Added an image and “MERS-CoV” to the post for SEO & searchy things.

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