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MERS: Updated Charts

Mens et Manus

UPDATED: 5.18.14, 0300 EST
Note:
Temporal data indicates date of onset, hospitalization, diagnosis, or public reporting.
Data Sources:
KSA MoH & WHO
Please Note:
Data are highly imperfect and subject to change.

Want more information? I’ve aggregated all of my MERS-related content on my Tumblr landing page.

Analysis & commentary on predecessors of these charts can be found at the following locations:
1. MERS: Healthcare Workers
2. MERS: Mortality Over Time
3. MERS: Comorbidities Over Time
4. MERS: Impact of comorbidity on mortality and disease severity
5. MERS: If not a mutation, then what?
6. MERS: Impact of comorbidity on mortality
7. Why we ought to care about MERS in healthcare workers
8. MERS: Mortality & comorbidity in symptomatic cases

9. Asymptomatic MERS + Ablution = Transmission?
10. MERS: Historical Variability of Comorbidity & Mortality

Find out more about MERS in America here and here.

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Meet UKIP’s PR officer doing a spot of public relations:

That’s their main message, is it not? Screw everyone we figure are not true English

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)

Meet Janice Atkinson – she’s UKIP’s PR officer.

Here she is doing a spot of PR:

UKIP PR

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Well done Janice.

Now we know what UKIP really thinks of the public.

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Read the full story behind this photograph via Maria Pizzey on Facebook.

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Please feel free to comment.

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Egyptian Aak 2014- Week 20 (April 12-18)

Nervana

Main Headlines

 Monday

Tuesday

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A Republican World – ‘Nebraska Senate Nominee Says Religious Beliefs Can Justify Breaking Any Law’

Sassy statements to appeal to knee jerk thoughts – hollow and callow.

The Last Of The Millenniums

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We are a society.

We are not a ‘christian’ society. Nor a Jewish society nor an atheist society.

We are a society.

Religion is your belief…not everyone’s law.

We ALL have a Constitution…..You have YOUR Bible.

“[O]ur right to the free exercise of religion is co-equal to our right to life,” according to the campaign website of Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican who won his party’s nomination to the United States Senate on Tuesday’.

‘Here’s a screenshot of the relevant part of Sasse’s website’:

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‘His proposed rule — that government cannot require someone to act counter to their religious beliefs “under any circumstances” — would mean that literally any law could be ignored by someone who held a religious belief counter to that law’.

‘According to National Geographic, for example,“[h]undreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family ‘honor,’”

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Unconditional Love

Night Owl Poetry - Dorinda Duclos

Photo via justcuteanimals.com Photo via justcuteanimals.com

Four paws
racing through the halls
in anticipation
Anxiously awaiting
dancing by the door
tail wagging, tongue hanging
there to greet you with
Unconditional love

In loving memory of Prince, Mimi, Alia, Ripley & Kira, who brought such joy to our lives over the many years. Always in our hearts, never forgotten.

©2014 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved

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Whatever you do, DON’T share this on the internet about UKIP:

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)

The so-called libertarian party UKIP have been informing the police of anyone who posts things about them they don’t like on the internet.

They are also threatening to sue anyone who uses their logo without their permission.

So much for their supposed support of freedom of speech.

So probably best not to post this anywhere on the internet then:

UKIP logo

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Oops!

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Read more from Another Angry Voice blog:

Why I chose to self-censor after legalistic threats from UKIP

And from Axe of Reason blog:

You are not allowed to read this blog

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Please feel free to comment. And share. If you dare:

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Selfies

Talking loud and walking down the street – the same thing?

Night Owl Poetry - Dorinda Duclos

Photo via www.nationalreview.com Photo via http://www.nationalreview.com

Uncertain of how the world views me
I take my phone and hold it
Arms length from my face
And click the button

The lonely soul looking back at me
Is someone I do not recognize
I must be doing something wrong

I take more pictures, too many to count
Determined to capture
Through someone else’s eyes
The image I see of myself

©2014 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved

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