The Highly Fatal Coronavirus Lurking in the Middle East

“How bad is MERS?” in 4 minutes.

Gil Pires
Microbial Instincts
4 min readApr 9, 2024

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Photo by Isabella Jusková on Unsplash.

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus continues to lurk silently in the Arabian Peninsula, having killed three people last year, as reported by Saudi Arabia — a continuous reminder of the importance of epidemic surveillance.

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