Taiwan News
Date: 2016-01-08
By: Chia Lee, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

South Korean government said Friday that the Middle East Respiratory

South Korea detects MERS virus mutation.

Syndrome (MERS) virus that spread through the country last year underwent a mutation that could have affected its ability to infect people and the fatality rate.
South Korean government said Friday that the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus that spread through the country last year underwent a mutation that could have affected its ability to infect people and the fatality rate.

MERS, a strain of coronavirus that causes a viral respiratory illness, was first reported in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2012, and has since spread to several other countries, with South Korea being the only country outside the Middle East that has had most confirmed cases.     [FULL  STORY]