The Spread of the Mers-CoV Virus: The Black Death of the XXI Century Waiting to Pounce

Predictably, as with the Influenza A H1N1 outbreak, the World Health Organization is taking a cavalier attitude towards MERS-CoV, or Middle East Respiratory Sindrome-related Coronavirus, which appeared in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and in five years has caused 2.027 cases and 710 deaths, a mortality rate of almost 30 per cent. With Influenza A (H1N1) in 2009/10, … Continue reading The Spread of the Mers-CoV Virus: The Black Death of the XXI Century Waiting to Pounce