A new study found that MERS-CoV can move from camels to humans.
Kuwait reported its first cause of MERS-CoV, which suggests that a potential could start during this time of the year.
After collecting fecal samples of tomb bats in Saudi Arabia, researchers discovered MERS-CoV in one of the samples that was 100 percent identical to the MERS-CoV that infected and killed a 60-year-old businessman.
Researchers found the first case of a MERS coronavirus outbreak in Jordan 2012.