Thanks to Bruce Weaver for sending the link to this WHO news release: WHO EMRO | Technical consultative meeting on novel human coronavirus, 14–15 January 2013. Excerpt:
Many activities have already been conducted in investigating the new virus and managing its public health consequences. Within this context, WHO has organized a technical consultative meeting to take place at the WHO Regional Office in Cairo from 14 to 15 January 2013 on the novel human coronavirus.
The meeting will bring together representatives of the three countries already affected, in addition to key partners and WHO collaborating centres involved in managing this public health issue, together with WHO experts.
The objectives of the technical consultative meeting are to obtain the most up-to-date scientific and public health understanding of the novel coronavirus based on available information, identify critical knowledge gaps in understanding the current risk and identify additional steps needed to improve the knowledge and research gap.
The meeting also aims to provide an update on the current situation in order to increase global awareness and reach consensus on measures to be taken to improve public health preparedness.
