This article from the Nursing Times discusses a recent case in Saudi Arabia where a man appears to have been infected by MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) by airborne transmission:
Camels are believed to be the main source of the MERS virus.
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“Deadly Mers virus ‘could now be airborne’,” The Independent reports. The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, which has an estimated case fatality rate of 30%, has been detected in an air sample in a camel barn in Saudi Arabia. This raises the possibility the virus could be spread through the air in the same way as flu.
MERS emerged in 2012 and can be extremely serious, leading to severe breathing difficulties, kidney failure and death (though it appears some people may become unaffected carriers of the virus).
The World Health Organization (WHO) states that 837 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection have been reported since 2012, including at least 291 related deaths.
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