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MERS belongs to the Coronavirus family. Coronavirus infect most people at some point in their lives. Human coronaviruses usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses such as the common cold.
Normally flu and other diseases spread only within one type of species. However, there are some contagious illnesses such as the MERS ans SARS that spread between animals and human - they are called zoonatic diseases. While young children, the elderly, and people with weak immune systems are most vulnerable, anyone who comes into contact with infected live poultry, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, insects and other domestic and wild animals can fall ill too.
It was in Saudi Arabia that the disease originated. Outside Saudi Arabia, Korea was in the midst of a large scale Middle Eastern Respiratory Virus(MERS) outbreak. Scientists believe that the MERS virus jumped from camels to humans in Saudi Arabia three years ago. For now, there is no vaccine or specific treatment, other than to isolate the patient and address their symptoms.