Editorial in International Journal of Infectious Diseases includes warning of the risks of the disease being spread globally The outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in South Korea is ...

A new study has shown for the first time that an experimental vaccine against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) induces a stable and functional immune response in humans that persists for at ...

A new vaccine designed to provide broad protection against COVID-19 and related coronaviruses has begun human trials. The ...

Two cases of the MERS coronavirus were identified in France this month, a surprising development for a virus typically confined to the Arabian Peninsula. Why it matters: Middle East Respiratory ...

President Trump recently completed a whirlwind tour of the Middle Eastern countries of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. As part of the welcome fanfare in Qatar his motorcade was escorted by royal ...

What if scientists could build a realistic model of the human lung, not full-sized, but grown in the lab from living cells? Why would they do this? VIDO scientists based at the University of ...

A group of bat viruses closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) could be one small mutation away from being capable of spilling over into human populations ...