The swine, pig, and bird flu viruses proved inept at world domination, despite much assistance and coercion from supporting role players. A new family of viruses has been taken under the wing of the publicists - the coronaviruses. As usual they originate 'somewhere else', in this case, the 'Middle East'; the lastest version has been named MERS or Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). There are sixty-four confirmed cases of MERS. It has been deemed not transmissible (non-infectious) by the researches. However, as the Professor in charge of the research so accurately stated: "The virus as it currently stands is not able to start an epidemic. My concern is that people read this and not worry about it..." That would be awful, imagine if everybody stopped worrying...
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