China confirmed its first case of MERS last Friday. Here, a health worker with a protective suit sits with people who came into close contact with a Korean MERS patient on his flight to Hong ...

The deadly virus spread at a business meeting, health officials say. May 19, 2014— -- A simple handshake has raised questions about MERS, the deadly infection now known to have spread on U.S ...

Fears of MERS in South Korea are growing by the day, with more than 2,300 people quarantined as the country grapples with the outbreak. More than 1,800 schools will be closed for several days amid ...

An Illinois man who tested positive for MERS after shaking hands with an infected business associate never had the virus, health officials said today. Rather, he received a “false positive ...

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, better known as MERS, may be an airborne virus. Learn more about how MERS may be transmitted.

MERS and Ebola share an important similarity: a lack of treatments or vaccinations. There’s currently no vaccine. “If there were a vaccine, it’s the kind of thing that might be useful in the ...

Health officials have reported the first case of MERS in the U.S. Here's what you need to know about the virus. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Right before MERS slipped off our collective radars only to be replaced by the deadly Ebola virus one continent over, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in July that it had received ...

The claim: MERS is the same as COVID-19. Most pandemics in the 20th and 21st centuries have been caused by either influenza – such as the 1918 Spanish flu or the 2009 swine outbreak – or a ...

A group of bat viruses closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) could be one small mutation away from being capable of spilling over into human ...