The MERS situation is "serious and of great concern" but doesn't constitute a global public health emergency, experts said today.
United Arab Emirates officials have invited WHO experts to help assess the nation's first local MERS case.
The United Arab Emirates reported the first MERS patient diagnosed and treated in the UAE.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed Saudi Arabia's most recently announced Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) case, raising the global total from the disease to 81 confirmed illnesses.
Recent MERS cases have featured less severe symptoms, younger patients, and more females.
A new MERS-CoV Saudi case and two deaths were reported as the WHO named 15 experts to its emergency panel.
WHO prepares in case the disease starts to spread more widely.
A patient long hospitalized in London dies as WHO offers help on finding how this disease is reaching humans.
Chinese researchers put the virus though its paces in a host of laboratory tests.
Two more Saudis have died of MERS infections, Saudi Arabia reported today.
