Tariq A. Madani

TL;DR: The recent outbreak of clusters of viral pneumonia due to a 2019-nCoV in the Wuhan market poses significant threats to international health and may be related to sale of bush meat derived from wild or captive sources at the seafood market.

TL;DR: The isolation and sequencing of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus obtained from a dromedary camel and from a patient who died of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV infection after close contact with camels that had rhinorrhea suggest that this fatal case of human MSPV infection was transmitted throughclose contact with an infected camel.

TL;DR: This cohort descriptive study summarizes the epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of the Rift Valley fever epidemic that occurred in Saudi Arabia from 26 August 2000 through 22 September 2001 and found patients with leukopenia had significantly a lower mortality rate than did those with a normal or high leukocyte count.

TL;DR: The majority of patients in the Jeddah MERS-CoV outbreak had contact with a health care facility, other patients, or both, which highlights the role of health care-associated transmission.

TL;DR: The most common CT finding in hospitalized patients with MERS-CoV infection is that of bilateral predominantly subpleural and basilar airspace changes, with more extensive ground-glass opacities than consolidation.