The virus responsible for the 2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak is not the same as the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic.

While carrying out surveillance of bats in Brazil, scientists have identified multiple different coronaviruses, including a brand-new one that they discovered was closely related to the virus ...

Of 145 MERS-related deaths, 112 occurred in Saudi Arabia which has had a total of 450 cases.

LONDON MERS, a mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East, spreads easily between people and appears to be more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after ...

A new coronavirus discovered in bats in Brazil has been found to share similarities with the deadly Mers virus but its risk to humans remains unclear, scientists say.

Abu Dhabi reports MERS coronavirus case: All you need to know about Covid's new variant The WHO is closely monitoring the situation in Abu Dhabi and is providing technical guidance to healthcare ...

MERS-CoV, the most pathogenic human coronavirus known to cause disease, was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and is mainly endemic in Middle Eastern countries.

Only one had “high similarities” to Mers-related coronavirus strains found in humans and camels. The virus genome also showed signs of recombination, a process where viruses merge with one ...

While carrying out surveillance of bats in Brazil, scientists have identified multiple different coronaviruses, including a brand-new one that they discovered was closely related to the virus ...