The global reach of the MERS coronavirus

Published online 2 June 2014

First discovered in Saudi Arabia in September 2012, the MERS-CoV has recently spread further from the Middle East across most continents of the world.

Tarek Ahmed

doi:10.1038/nmiddleeast.2014.135

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