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Solving a Viral Mystery
Experts Scramble to Trace the Emergence of MERS
By DENISE GRADY
Published: July 1, 2013
As the scientists peered into the darkness, their headlamps revealed an eerie sight. Hundreds of eyes glinted back at them from the walls and ceiling. They had discovered, in a crumbling, long-abandoned village half-buried in sand near a remote town in southwestern Saudi Arabia, a roosting spot for bats.
where cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome had been reported.
It was an ideal place to set up traps...
Solving a Viral Mystery
Experts Scramble to Trace the Emergence of MERS
By DENISE GRADY
Published: July 1, 2013
As the scientists peered into the darkness, their headlamps revealed an eerie sight. Hundreds of eyes glinted back at them from the walls and ceiling. They had discovered, in a crumbling, long-abandoned village half-buried in sand near a remote town in southwestern Saudi Arabia, a roosting spot for bats.
where cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome had been reported.
It was an ideal place to set up traps...