Saudi Authorities Face Challenges To Preventing Spread Of MERS, Other Diseases During Pilgrimages
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“Today, the Middle East is threatened with a new plague, one eponymously if not ominously named the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV, or MERS for short),” Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Maxine Builder, a research associate at CFR, write…