Category MERS Virus Alert

MERS virus kills a man in Jordan

A man has died in Jordan after being infected with the Mers virus, a media report said Tuesday, in the kingdom’s second fatality from the disease this year and fourth since 2012. The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus is considered…

MERS virus diagnosed in man in Greece

A man in Athens, Greece was recently admitted to intensive care at a local hospital and diagnosed with the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, according to local health officials and the World Health Organization. The 69-year-old patient had recently traveled…