The largest outbreak of the MERS coronavirus outside the Middle East is no different to previous outbreaks in the way that it spreads.
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08 June 2015
An earlier version of this story said that SARS spreads easily between people. In fact SARS does not spread easily between people; it just spreads more easily than MERS. The text has been updated to reflect this.
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Butler, D. South Korean MERS outbreak is not a global threat. Nature (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.17709
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