Pilgrimage And Pipeline: MERS Prospects
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The renewed break-out of a frighteningly deadly virus with no known cure or vaccine in a region that will shortly host a couple of million international pilgrims has prompted a rash of recent headlines linking Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the SARS-like coronavirus that first emerged in Saudi Arabia in 2012, and the annual Hajj to Mecca.