The deadly MERS virus from the Middle East hasn't reached the U.S., but health officials take it seriously and are making plans.
ATLANTA — In a war room of sorts in a neatly appointed government building, U.S. officers dressed in crisp uniforms arranged themselves around a U-shaped table and kept their eyes trained on a giant screen. PowerPoint slides ticked through the latest movements of an enemy that recently emerged in Saudi Arabia — a mysterious virus that has killed more than half of the people known to have been infected.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/nTWQcnEE71k/la-sci-mers-virus-20130630,0,1657961.story
ATLANTA — In a war room of sorts in a neatly appointed government building, U.S. officers dressed in crisp uniforms arranged themselves around a U-shaped table and kept their eyes trained on a giant screen. PowerPoint slides ticked through the latest movements of an enemy that recently emerged in Saudi Arabia — a mysterious virus that has killed more than half of the people known to have been infected.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/nTWQcnEE71k/la-sci-mers-virus-20130630,0,1657961.story
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