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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), like Covid and seasonal flu, “the usual symptoms of MERS include fever, cough and shortness of breath.” Pneumonia is common, but MERS patients do not always develop this condition. Gastrointestinal symptoms, such as diarrhea, have also been reported in these patients. In addition, “severe forms of the disease may lead to respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation and intensive care unit management.” Vincent Enouf, virologist and deputy director of the National Influenza Reference Center (CNR) at the Pasteur Institute, said: “It was identified in 2012 in Saudi Arabia, which is why it was given the name MERS-CoV, for the Middle East....