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Volume 30, Number 3—March 2024
Dispatch

Biphasic MERS-CoV Incidence in Nomadic Dromedaries with Putative Transmission to Humans, Kenya, 2022–2023

Brian Maina Ogoti1, Victor Riitho1, Johanna Wildemann1, Nyamai Mutono, Julia Tesch, Jordi Rodon, Kaneemozhe Harichandran, Jackson Emanuel, Elisabeth Möncke-Buchner, Stella Kiambi, Julius Oyugi, Marianne Mureithi, Victor M. Corman, Christian Drosten, Samuel M. Thumbi1, and Marcel A. Müller1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya (B.M. Ogoti, V. Riitho, N. Mutono, J. Oyugi, M. Mureithi, S.M. Thumbi); Queen Mary University of London, London, UK (V. Riitho); Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany (J. Wildemann, J. Tesch, J. Rodon, K. Harichandran, J. Emanuel, E. Möncke-Buchner, V.M. Corman, C. Drosten, M.A. Müller); Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA (N. Mutono, S.M. Thumbi); Food and Agriculture Organization, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (S. Kiambi); Labor Berlin–Charité Vivantes GmbH, Berlin (V.M. Corman); German Center for Infection Research, Berlin (V.M. Corman, C. Drosten, M.A. Müller); University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (S.M. Thumbi)

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Table

Overview of camel samples and MERS-CoV RNA positivity in study of MERS-CoV incidence in nomadic dromedaries with putative transmission to humans, Kenya, 2022–2023*

Region MERS-CoV RNA–positive samples/total samples (%) Town of origin MERS-CoV RNA–positive samples/total samples (%)
Female camels Male camels
Isiolo 15/859 (1.75) Burat 1/252 (0.4) 10/326 (3.1)
Bulla Pesa 0/2 0/0
Kinna 0/13 1/19 (5.3)
Oldo/Nyiro 0/2 2/23 (8.7)
Garbatulla 0/1 0/1
Ngare Mara
 0/106
0/114
Marsabit 26/1,846 (1.41) Laisamis 1/250 (0.4) 21/1,591 (1.3)
Marsabit Central 0/0 0/1
Sololo 0/1 0/0
North Horr 0/0 0/2
not defined
 0/0
0/1
Samburu
 0/6 (0)
 Wamba East
 0/0
0/6
Total 36/2,711 (1.3) 2/627 (0.3) 34/2,084 (1.6)

*MERS-CoV, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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