Raina McIntyre
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581 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard Feb 2021
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So once antibiotics came along, treatment of syphilis was possible if it was diagnosed early enough.
It's actually a h got a higher mortality rate than SARS.
So SARS was about twelve point five percent.
MERS coronavirus is about twenty-six percent death rate, but it's behaved very differently to SARS.
So SARS was a classic epidemic disease.
You know, we talked earlier about epidemic versus endemic.
It came and went in eight months and it was gone, and it peaked really rapidly and then tailed off.
MERS coronavirus is much less infectious than SARS, but has sort of putted along at this low rate for several years now.
And it actually hasn't spread through the Hajj, you know.
Yeah.
You would expect it to if it had epidemic characteristics.
Like with SARS, everywhere that it spread, it set off satellite epidemics.
But with MERS coronavirus, except for South Korea, which had a massive epidemic when a person
And who travelled to the Middle East came to uh South Korea.
Except for South Korea there's been no epidemics anywhere else where there have been isolated cases through travel.
So it's a very puzzling disease and breakout?
Could it break out?
could mutate and become more infectious and the pattern's very odd because it's really been largely contained to the Arabian Peninsula and there's been sporadic cases in people who've traveled uh to other countries.
But um it hasn't had the same pattern as SARS.
The world was very unprepared and the response, you know, has been roundly criticized um from all quarters.
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