On May 18 Sunday the Centers for Disease Control announced that they would be using their handbook on SARS, the deadly virus outbreak that took place in 2003, to figure out how to deal with the growing death toll from MERS.
MERS, which stands for Middle East respiratory syndrome, was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012, and since has been responsible for 173 deaths, with three identified cases in the United States. Officials believe the virus originated from camels, which carry a strain of the disease in their blood. Human to human infection is low, although there is a risk a more contagious strand could mutate. |
