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Global Genomic Surveillance of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
James Richard Otieno, Ahmed Mohammed Albarraq, Francis Amirtharaj Selvaraj, Amna Omair Al Mehairi, Esam Ibraheem Azhar, Christopher Ruis, Hasan Zackaria Ali Ishaq, Asma Abi Mohamed Shah, Zelalem Tadesse, Qiu Yu, Ihab El Masry, Hala Abou El Naja, Belinda L. Herring, Amal Barakat, Maria Van Kerkhove, Sophie von Dobschuetz, and Lorenzo Subissi
Author affiliation: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (J.R. Otieno, M. Van Kerkhove, S. von Dobschuetz, L. Subissi); Public Health Authority, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (A.M. Albarraq); PureLab, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (F.A. Selvaraj, A.O. Al Mehairi); Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi (F.A. Selvaraj); King Fahd Medical Research Center and Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (E.I. Azhar); University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK (C. Ruis); Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, Abu Dhabi (H.Z.A. Ishaq, A.A.M. Shah); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy (Z. Tadesse, Q. Yu, I. El Masry); World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt (H.A. El Naja, A. Barakat); World Health Organization, Manila, the Philippines (B.L. Herring).
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Figure 8. Live camel exports between countries described during global genomic surveillance, 2013–2024. The arrow tail represents the source country and the arrowhead represents destination country. The color of the arrow represents the number of camel exports. Trade flows are contextual indicators of animal movement connectivity and do not provide evidence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection, infected-animal movement, viral introduction, or viral circulation. The Australia-directed flows represent 6 animals in total, 5 in 2015 and 1 in 2021, and should be interpreted accordingly. Map provided by the World Health Organization Health Emergencies Programme using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations statistics database.
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