Conditions in Gaza’s displacement camps, malnutrition, and Israeli bans on the entry of medicines increase the risk.

A new study has shown for the first time that an experimental vaccine against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) induces ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a grave warning concerning a "respiratory syndrome coronavirus" following an increase in cases. As of December 21, the international health agency ...

What if scientists could build a realistic model of the human lung, not full-sized, but grown in the lab from living cells? Why would they do this? VIDO scientists based at the University of ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 19 (UPI) --The conflict-ridden Middle East will stand at a critical juncture in 2026 after power shifts and unresolved wars, teetering between an uneasy status quo, the risk of ...

French health officials are working to trace all the contacts of two men who contracted Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), a potentially deadly disease that typically only occurs in the Middle ...

The LUCAS platforms are part of a one-way attack drone squadron CENTCOM recently deployed to the Middle East to strengthen regional security and deterrence. (CENTCOM) A newly formed task force based ...

Order a fizzy drink in Baghdad or Beirut and chances are you’ll be served a Pepsi. Unlike anywhere else in the world, in the Middle East Pepsi has managed to trounce Coca-Cola. Its success is part ...

There were many reasons why Tehran, Iran’s capital, looked drabber, shabbier and less vivacious earlier this month than during my last visit six years ago. Back then it had been summer. Now it was ...

In January 2003, epidemiologists in China identified two cases of "atypical pneumonia" in patients who had visited health care workers in Guangdong province. Teams initiated contact tracing and ...

Background: Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) poses an ongoing public health risk with a 36% case-fatality rate and no licensed vaccines. This Phase 2a, randomized, blinded, ...