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To: wtd

Did you see this...

Silently among us: Scientists worry about milder cases of MERS
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/17/us-health-mers-research-idUSKBN0DW1LT20140517?feedType=RSS

It is becoming increasingly clear that people can be infected with MERS without developing severe respiratory disease, said Dr David Swerdlow, who heads the MERS response team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“You don’t have to be in the intensive care unit with pneumonia to have a case of MERS,” Swerdlow told Reuters. “We assume they are less infectious (to others), but we don’t know.”

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“Asymptomatic carriers of diseases can represent a major route for a pathogen to spread,” said Dr Amesh Adalja of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

“Just think of Typhoid Mary,” he said


14 posted on 05/17/2014 3:32:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes, I saw that . . .see post #8


16 posted on 05/17/2014 3:35:50 PM PDT by wtd
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