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MERS-CoV infection without disease: When the coalmine has no canary

Posted onJanuary 2, 2019January 11, 2019Leave a comment

Infection by viruses including the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) does not always result in obvious sickness. MERS-CoV infection without disease may simply reflect that a healthy human’s immune Read More …

CategoriesMERS-CoVTagsasymptomatic, MERS, MERS-CoV, Review, transmission

Influenza virus transmission: with or without symptoms, you’re dropping Flu virus

Posted onJanuary 14, 2018November 9, 202019 Comments

Influenza viruses infect our cells, but cell entry alone does not result in influenza (the disease). What happens after our cells get infected can depend on quite a few things. Read More …

CategoriesInfluenzaTagsaerosol, airborne, droplet, droplet nuclei, Flu, influenza, influenza virus, transmission

MERS-CoV detection but not disease…

Posted onSeptember 18, 2017January 2, 2019Leave a comment

Infection but not sickness Asymptomatic infections are those where we can detect the virus using reliable laboratory methods, but the infected person doesn’t show any signs or symptoms of a Read More …

CategoriesMERS-CoVTagsantibody, asymptomatic, MERS, MERS-CoV, serology, transmission

This little MERS-CoV infected piggy had RNA, but that little piggy with indirect contact had none…

Posted onAugust 16, 2017September 1, 20171 Comment

Back in April, a Spanish/Dutch collaborative study came out looking at whether pigs deliberately infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) might be able to transmit that virus to Read More …

CategoriesUncategorizedTagsMERS-CoV, pig, transmission

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