Progress Reported in Search for MERS Treatment

After the death toll from the MERS virus topped 100 in Saudi Arabia, US scientists say they have made progress toward developing treatments for it. There are currently no vaccines or antiviral treatments for MERS, a severe respiratory disease with a mortality rate of more than 40 percent that was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and which experts are still struggling to understand. But now scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston ...