MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Fourteen people have died from the virus in the East Asian nation since it had been first diagnosed in a 68-year-old man returning from the Middle East, last month.
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome is a viral respiratory disease caused by the MERS-coronavirus. The infection was first reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia and then spread to other countries.
MERS is transferred from camels to people, with limited human-to-human transmission, according to the WHO. The infection triggers such symptoms as fever, cough and shortness of breath. There is currently no vaccine for MERS.
