Today in The New York Timescoverage of a report published yesterday on a Saudi hospital-borne outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome released by The New England Journal of Medicine, a potential ...

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012. The virus is zoonotic, meaning it can be ...

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a zoonotic betacoronavirus first identified in 2012. The primary animal reservoir is the dromedary camel, with serological surveys indicating ...

Eleven new cases of the occasionally fatal Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, were reported in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, two days after the nation’s health minister was replaced. In the week ...

France has confirmed its first cases of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in more than a decade - triggering urgent fears of new infectious disease in a continent still scarred by the ...