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 ...

From this analysis, one of the viruses was found to have a genetic sequence with 71.9 percent similarity to that of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), the virus behind ...

MERS coronavirus deadlier than SARS, scientists find. June 20, 2013 / 5:31 PM EDT / AP LONDON MERS, a mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East, spreads easily between ...

The so-called Middle East respiratory syndrome ... MERS coronavirus is closely related to SARS coronavirus. SARS originated in China and claimed 800 lives worldwide in 2002 and 2003.

Last month, a news story reported that a second patient has been admitted to an American hospital suffering from the MERS virus. The Saudi Arabian man is being treated in Orlando, Florida, while ...

The MERS coronavirus is currently spreading very rapidly in the Arab world. An infection could affect human beings as well as camels, and has already cost more than 100 human lives. Scientists at ...

Of the 93,158 COVID-19 cases confirmed so far worldwide, only 3,198 have resulted in death – a mortality rate of 3.4%. By comparison, the 2002 SARS outbreak had a mortality rate of 10%, and ...

New MERS-Related Coronavirus Discovered In ... one of the viruses was found to have a genetic sequence with 71.9 percent similarity to that of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...