Morning everyone...
Yes please geevee, with oatmeal and bacon too!
O/T
Skip if not interested....it's not EXACTLY Sunday morning cheery stuff, but
Ive been following the MERS-CoV outbreak and its definitely one to watch.
I just posted the following on the dedicated thread on Websleths here:
New virus to be called MERS-CoV - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MERS-CoV
In addition to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, France, and Tunis, it has now spread to Italy.
The Frenchman who came back from the United Arab Emirates and came down with it gave it to his hospital roommate
A 45-year-old man returned to Italy from a visit to Jordan and came down with symptoms and has since given it to a coworker and two-year-old child (who is a family member).
Here is todays World Health Organization MERS-CoV update:
http://www.who.int/csr/don/don_updates/en/index.html
The good news is that it doesnt seem to be very easy to contract or a lot more people would have it.
The bad news is that:
1) it is obviously spreading person-to-person
2) as of June 2, 2013, of the 53 laboratory confirmed cases, 30 have died.