The urgent need for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus surveillance in Somalia
•Somalia lacks MERS-CoV surveillance despite its large camel population.•Camel trade with the Arabian Peninsula heightens cross-border transmission risk.•Urgent One Health surveillance is needed to close this critical data gap.
Authors
- Abdifetah Ibrahim Omar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5444-6487)
- Shafie Abdulkadir Hassan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6022-815X)
- Kassim Abdi Jimale
Institutions
- Jamhuriya University of Science and Technology (SO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IJID Regions
- Published
- 2025-11-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijregi.2025.100806
- Primary Topic
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00