MERS

Up-to-date, internationally sourced news about Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome.

6,278 Viewers•73,444 Page flips•951 Followers•303 Stories

Most recent stories in MERS

Linda Anfuso
Rare Virus With 35% Mortality Rate Reappears in Middle East
The Messenger - Mansur Shaheen
A long forgotten cousin of COVID-19 has returned to the United Arab Emirates, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns. Someone hospitalized with an …
Linda Anfuso
What’s a raccoon dog and did it give us covid? Explaining viral hosts and complicated spillover pathways
grid.news - Dave Levitan
Scientists investigating the origin of the pandemic reported Thursday that they had found genetic data from a market in Wuhan, China, that adds …
Linda Anfuso
The virus hunters warily eyeing camels
BBC Future - Jacob Kushner in Marsabit, Kenya
In northern Kenya, researchers are working to prevent a dangerous coronavirus – Mers – from jumping from camels to humans again. But climate change is making their job more difficult. It’s thought that Covid-19 originated in animals before jumping to humans. Now experts are warning that the chances …
Linda Anfuso
What Is a Coronavirus?
ScienceAlert - Science Alert
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses known for containing strains that cause potentially deadly diseases in mammals and birds. In humans they're …
Linda Anfuso
The deadly viruses that vanished
BBC Future - Zaria Gorvett
Scientists are only just starting to unravel why some viruses disappear, while others can linger and cause disease for centuries. It was the year 1002. The English king Ethelred II – not-so-fondly remembered as “Æthelred the unready” – was at war. For over a century, Viking armies had been scoping …
Linda Anfuso
New study shows exactly how the coronavirus began to spread outside China
bgr.com - Chris Smith
The novel coronavirus needed just a few weeks to reach so many countries around the world, and that’s before the World Health Organization (WHO) …

See more stories

MERS

Magazine

More Magazines by Linda Anfuso