NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. ENJOY YOUR DAY. WHO convenes emergency talks on MERS virus. “The first recorded MERS death was in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia. The number of infections has ticked up steadily, with a flurry this April, May and June taking it to 79. Forty-three MERS patients have died to date, an extremely high rate of 54 percent, compared to nine percent of the 8,273 recorded patients with SARS, which was centred on Asia.”

Bill Quick observes: “This is kind of bubbling along underneath the event horizon of the general public. I hope it stays there. But, you know, in the real world bugs eat us when they can.”