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Volume 32, Number 11—November 2026

Dispatch

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Camels, Kazakhstan, 2025

Aidyn Kydyrmanov1Comments to Author , Yermukhammet Kassymbekov, Sardor Nuralibekov, Temirlan Sabyrzhan, Yelizaveta Khan, Marat Kumar, Aigerim Abdimadiyeva, and Kobey Karamendin1
Author affiliation: Research and Production Center for Microbiology and Virology, Almaty, Kazakhstan

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Figure 1

Choropleth representation of camel density used in a study of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus camels, Kazakhstan, 2025. Camel sampling sites and areas with anecdotal reports of symptomatic camels are shown. Colors indicate animals/100 km2 in Kazakhstan and surrounding countries. All spatial data processing, density calculations, and map visualization were conducted by using QGIS (version 3.40.12, https://qgis.org). All spatial data were projected in by using the World Geodetic System 1984 (EPSG:4326). Map design displays geographic coordinates so that equal angular intervals of longitude and latitude are represented uniformly, despite corresponding to different ground distances, producing an elongation of the study area.

Figure 1. Choropleth representation of camel density used in a study of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus camels, Kazakhstan, 2025. Camel sampling sites and areas with anecdotal reports of symptomatic camels are shown. Colors indicate animals/100 km2 in Kazakhstan and surrounding countries. All spatial data processing, density calculations, and map visualization were conducted by using QGIS (version 3.40.12, https://qgis.org). All spatial data were projected in by using the World Geodetic System 1984 (EPSG:4326). Map design displays geographic coordinates so that equal angular intervals of longitude and latitude are represented uniformly, despite corresponding to different ground distances, producing an elongation of the study area.

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1These authors contributed equally to this work and share first and last authorship.

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