Why Mers CoV is top of most virologists’ watch list
Less than a year after the Mers CoV respiratory virus was discovered, it is still not clear how worried we should be about a disease that has a fatality rate of more than 50 per cent.
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US officials warn Americans not to travel to Pakistan and withdraw staff from Lahore because of a specific threat.
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The US state department issues a worldwide travel alert related to an al-Qaeda threat and advises Americans to take extra care when they are abroad.
UN experts will travel to Syria as soon as possible to investigate chemical weapons attacks in three locations following months of negotiations with Bashar al-Assad’s government.
US Secretary of State John Kerry says “reasonable compromises” will be the keystone of making planned peace talks between Israel and Palestine successful.
Two people have been killed and at least 19 injured as rival protesters clash in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria. Tens of thousands are on the streets of the capital, Cairo.
EU foreign ministers agree to put the military wing of Lebanese group Hezbollah on their terror list, in a major reversal of policy driven by concerns over the group’s activities in Europe.
MPs and Amnesty International raise concerns over the UK’s approval of export licences for the sale of arms, worth over £12bn, to countries with questionable human rights records, including Sri Lanka.
Less than a year after the Mers CoV respiratory virus was discovered, it is still not clear how worried we should be about a disease that has a fatality rate of more than 50 per cent.