April 27, 2014 -- Cases of the MERS Coronavirus have significantly increased in the last few months, and in recent weeks there have been reports of the virus in new countries including Egypt ...

The Mers virus was first identified in 2012 in Saudi Arabia and has since led to over 850 deaths with cases of infection reported across more than two dozen countries.

To analyse whether MERS poses a similar threat as SARS did, Fontanet's team looked at data from 55 cases of MERS infection and calculated some called a basic reproduction number, or R0.

When the patient—a male health-care worker who had been stationed in Saudi Arabia just prior to returning to the United States to visit family in Indiana—checked into the 427-bed hospital on Apr. 28, ...

The enzyme the team targeted within the MERS virus is called 3C-like protease. Without the enzyme, the virus cannot create more viruses to further an infection.

Scientists around the world have been searching for the animal source, or reservoir, of MERS virus infections ever since the first human cases were confirmed in September 2012.

An Illinois man who apparently caught the virus, but did not require medical care, had met with an infected Indiana patient 2 times to discuss business; the longest meeting lasted 40 minutes.

The first case of MERS, a dangerous respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East and has a high death rate, has been confirmed in the United States, officials said Friday.

MERS was discovered in 2012 and has mostly been centered in Saudi Arabia. It belongs to the family of coronaviruses that includes the common cold and SARS, and can cause fever, breathing problems ...

MERS, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, has spread to the United States. The patient with the first confirmed U.S. case of MERS is said to be improving in an Indiana hospital.

The MERS virus has been found in camels, but officials don’t know how it is spreading to humans. Overall, about 600 people have had the respiratory illness, and about 175 people have died.