MERS Virus Update
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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is an illness caused by a newly discovered virus in the same family as SARS. Most of the documented cases have come from Saudi Arabia, which has seen a 54 percent mortality rate in those patients. Martin Cetron, director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the emerging virus.
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Martin Cetron
Martin Cetron is director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Related Links
- CDC: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
- WHO: Coronavirus Infections
- NEJM: Hospital Outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
- Lancet: Interhuman transmissibility of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: estimation of pandemic risk
- CIDRAP: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
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