New Estimates Suggest Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Has Not Yet Reached Pandemic Potential

New estimates of the transmissibility of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in humans suggest that it does not yet have pandemic potential, according to research published in The Lancet. Amid concerns of a new pandemic more deadly than severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a group of researchers from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France analysed data on MERS-CoV clusters (55 of the 64 laboratory-confirmed cases worldwide) to estimate the basic reproduction number (R0)* and compare it to that of prepandemic SARS... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..