Background: The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a new human disease initially reported from the Arabian Peninsula in September 2012. Since then, the disease has spread worldwide. We present the available demographic and epidemiological data reported by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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