Live virus implicates camels in MERS outbreak

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) Scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, King Saud University, and EcoHealth Alliance extracted a complete, live, infectious sample of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus from two camels in Saudi Arabia. The sample matched MERS coronavirus found in humans, indicating that the virus in camels is capable of infecting humans and that camels are a likely source of the outbreak.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news