MERS-CoV in the EMR

ABSTRACT

In recent time, two new developments related to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus [MERS-CoV] have occurred in the Eastern Mediterranean Region [EMR] of WHO that may potentially be of significant public health importance. The first is that the MERSCOV outbreak infection seems to be spreading geographically. Recently two more countries in the EMR [Oman and Kuwait] have reported laboratory confirmed cases. The second development is that the MERS-CoV has been detected in camels linked to two recent confirmed human infections in Qatar