Sunday 18 August 2013

[News & Analysis] Emerging Diseases: Researchers Scramble to Understand Camel Connection to MERS

Science 16 August 2013:
Vol. 341 no. 6147 p. 702
DOI: 10.1126/science.341.6147.702 Emerging Diseases The discovery that camels in Oman harbor antibodies to the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus has reenergized the hunt for the source of the virus. But whether the camels really were infected with MERS is still unclear; some believe the animals' peculiar immune system may have led to a wrong result.


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