High Rate of Circulating MERS-CoV in Dromedary Camels at Slaughterhouses in Riyadh, 2019.

MERS-CoV is a zoonotic virus that has emerged in humans in 2012 and caused severe respiratory illness with a mortality rate of 34.4%. Since its appearance, MERS-CoV has been reported in 27 countries and most of these cases were in Saudi Arabia.