MERS -- Saudi Arabia
The fight against the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which has killed at least 722 people over the past 5 years, is honing in on its target: camels.
MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV), a member of a virus family ranging from the common cold to severe acute respiratory syndrome, appears to have emerged in humans in Saudi Arabia in 2012, but has now been traced back in camels to at least 1983.
Almost all the outbreaks so far originated in the Arabian Gulf, but MERS-CoV could
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