In a study published by Nature Medicine, the researchers infected six monkeys with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus.

MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.

The fear was that something similar might happen with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), as it has come to be known.

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, was first reported in Saudi Arabia last year.

The new virus, dubbed MERS for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, has appeared at a very different pace.

Was the source of almost half the cases in the South Korean outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or Mers (2015).

For more than 15 months, officials have tried to determine what sparked the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

Evidence is mounting that camels are the most likely intermediary in the transmission from bats to humans of the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.

Experts point first and foremost to figuring out the basics of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus.

That includes new coronaviruses, like the ones that cause SARS and the new Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.

More than 60 cases of MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) have been reported in the last year by the World Health Organisation.

Some scientists who tackled that virus are battling a new coronavirus called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV).

Fukuda said MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) remained a patchwork of infections that had not yet swept through countries or communities as influenza can.

The WHO has called it the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

The virus, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), can cause coughing, fever and pneumonia.

Ebola and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-COV)

Nearly 70% of viruses that infect humans, such as HIV, Ebola and the new Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), originate in wildlife.

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (Mers-CoV) emerged in the Arabian peninsula last September and has been smouldering there ever since.

Infection with the novel "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus" or MERS-CoV has been diagnosed in 90 patients so far, half of whom have died.

Tests have shown the Mers (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) virus, or one that is very closely related, has been circulating in the animals, offering a potential route for the spread.

Genome sequencing has identified several infection transmission chains of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in humans.

Researchers said Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, is even more deadly than SARS and is easily transmitted in healthcare environments.

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) Health Advisory for July 2015 including a YouTube video.

They are among 44 cases and 22 deaths worldwide, according to the WHO, which has called it the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

Comparison of Saudi Arabia and South Korean outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection.