News Lag- Mers is worse than being reported

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   http://www.salon.com/2014/06/04/officials_saudi_mers_outbreak_was_much_deadlier_than_we_thought/

As usual we are getting the real numbers as much as a month later and MERS is in the U.S. and it is a problem.  Yet, it is more of a problem in the Middle East, and it is spreading and the strain has mutated.Revised data shows a nearly 50 percent jump in the disease's death toll                        

The deadly virus sweeping through the Middle East — and now cropping up in the U.S.
 — turns out to have been more deadly than health officials were led to 
believe. After “re-examining old data,” officials in Saudi Arabia, where
 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) originated, found
 that they had overlooked about a fifth of infections reported since 
2012. The revised number of infections rose from 575 to 688, while the 
revised death toll jumped nearly 50 percent, from 190 to 282.

No one’s quite sure how the Saudi government’s numbers could have been as off as they were, but on the same day
 that the revision was announced, the country relieved one of its top 
health officials from his post. Responding to criticism from the 
international community, the health ministry also promised that it’s 
working to improve its reporting and tracking of the outbreak.

comment: Doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure this out. Which leads us to the obvious conclusion-if they were misreporting before- it is likely they are now as well and we have no real solid numbers on this. 

Why must we go to Aljazeera to get this information?

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/review-reveals-big-rise-saudi-mers-deaths-20146464342243632.html

The CFR is 41% - a CFR in the U.S. of 5% would shut us down. 

A thorn by any other name still draws blood - so in Orlando Florida is this Mers?

http://www.allvoices.com/news/14933442/video/105073168-orlando-florida-mers-virus-case---large-number-of-upper-respiratory-problems---may-25-2014

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	http://www.salon.com/2014/06/04/officials_saudi_mers_outbreak_was_much_deadlier_than_we_thought/ As usual we are getting the real numbers as much as a month later and MERS is in the U.S. and it is a problem. Yet, it is more of a problem in the Middle East, and it is spreading and the strain has mutated.Revised data shows a nearly 50 percent jump in the disease's death toll The deadly virus sweeping through the Middle East — and now cropping up in the U.S. — turns out to have been more deadly than health officials were led to believe. After “re-examining old data,” officials in Saudi Arabia, where Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) originated, found that they had overlooked about a fifth of infections reported since 2012. The revised number of infections rose from 575 to 688, while the revised death toll jumped nearly 50 percent, from 190 to 282. No one’s quite sure how the Saudi government’s numbers could have been as off as they were, but on the same day that the revision was announced, the country relieved one of its top health officials from his post. Responding to criticism from the international community, the health ministry also promised that it’s working to improve its reporting and tracking of the outbreak. comment: Doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure this out. Which leads us to the obvious conclusion-if they were misreporting before- it is likely they are now as well and we have no real solid numbers on this. Why must we go to Aljazeera to get this information? http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/review-reveals-big-rise-saudi-mers-deaths-20146464342243632.html The CFR is 41% - a CFR in the U.S. of 5% would shut us down. A thorn by any other name still draws blood - so in Orlando Florida is this Mers? http://www.allvoices.com/news/14933442/video/105073168-orlando-florida-mers-virus-case---large-number-of-upper-respiratory-problems---may-25-2014 Medclinician
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