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Hopkins epidemiologist tracing outbreak of SARS-like disease
Deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome spreads rapidly; U.S. braces for cases
By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun
8:57 p.m. EDT, June 19, 2013
Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Dr. Trish Perl traveled halfway around the world last month to trace the outbreak of a deadly SARS-like disease in Saudi Arabia that's spreading.
She and two colleagues pored over hospital records, tracking the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, just as they did with a SARS outbreak in Toronto nearly a decade earlier.
The researchers "were looking for any crossover to explain how one person gave it to another," Perl said. They traced a web of infection linking a man and his son to nearly two dozen others who had tended to the sick, visited the same health care facilities or were in adjacent hospital beds.
Their findings appear Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, shedding new light on the spread of an outbreak that has reached three continents with what researchers called "worrisome" mortality...
Hopkins epidemiologist tracing outbreak of SARS-like disease
Deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome spreads rapidly; U.S. braces for cases
By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun
8:57 p.m. EDT, June 19, 2013
Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Dr. Trish Perl traveled halfway around the world last month to trace the outbreak of a deadly SARS-like disease in Saudi Arabia that's spreading.
She and two colleagues pored over hospital records, tracking the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, just as they did with a SARS outbreak in Toronto nearly a decade earlier.
The researchers "were looking for any crossover to explain how one person gave it to another," Perl said. They traced a web of infection linking a man and his son to nearly two dozen others who had tended to the sick, visited the same health care facilities or were in adjacent hospital beds.
Their findings appear Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine, shedding new light on the spread of an outbreak that has reached three continents with what researchers called "worrisome" mortality...