Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Saudi MOH: Burying The Lede

https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/CCC/PressReleases/Pages/default.aspx

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When you hit, as I do, a hundred or more websites every day searching for infectious disease stories . . . it is sometimes easy to miss things.
For reasons I can't explain, the Saudi MOH - after not posting updates for several days (a common occurrence), began putting new daily MERS updates half way down the list. Had Lisa Schnirring at CIDRAP not clued me in, I might still be oblivious. 
In any event, over the past 6 days the Saudis have reported 4 new MERS cases, the details of which follow:

From the 24th:

https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/CCC/PressReleases/Pages/statistics-2017-11-24-001.aspx



 From the 28th:

https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/CCC/PressReleases/Pages/statistics-2017-11-28-001.aspx


From Today:

https://www.moh.gov.sa/en/CCC/PressReleases/Pages/statistics-2017-11-29-001.aspx