Health Alerts

Following advice from Qatari authorities, the WHO published a Disease Outbreak News post late last week relating to two MERS cases from late March/early April. The two men, one aged 50 years and the other 85yo, had confirmed high risk exposure to dromedary camels which included consuming raw camel milk in the two weeks before becoming ill. The older man, who had a number of co-morbidities, succumbed to the infection in mid-April. Read more