Exclusive by Walid Shoebat
When it comes to MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) it kills nearly a third of the people it sickened. Most people still haven’t twigged to the existence of MERS but that may be changing, with new MERS infections popping up recently in Malaysia, Greece, the Philippines, Egypt, and late last week, the United States became the 16th country to detect MERS in an American who has been living and working in Saudi Arabia.
Some potential explanations for the sharp rise are a seasonal upswing, some outbreaks in Saudi and UAE hospitals where human-to-human spread has been taking place, and an increase in the number of people coming forward for testing.
There has also been a spate of exported cases from Saudi Arabia who contracted MERS during a religious pilgrimage and died after returning home. And another man from Greece flew to Athens after getting sick while living in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Jordan and Egypt have also detected new cases in people coming from Saudi Arabia.
American tourist consuming milk and urine
MERS as the World Health Organization (WHO) advised people not to consume raw milk or raw meat products from camels.
While camels are clearly a major part of the MERS story, which the majority were found infected with a strain genetically almost identical to the strain that’s infecting people, yet questions arise if the transmission occurs through the drinking of unpasteurized camel milk, consumption of cheese made from it, or is it the drinking of camel urine?
Many are raising doubts as to blame the Arab camel.
But researchers at Columbia University recently had an additional theory – the infections are highest in the spring, when camels are born.
And it makes sense, since Camels lactate only after they give birth and need their baby present in order to lactate and then they only produce milk for 90 seconds. And since the Muslim tradition is to combine camel urine with camel milk, the consumption obviously is higher during the spring.
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