Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus

A Greek man who returned to Athens from the Persian Gulf tested negative Tuesday for the deadly respiratory disease MERS, which has killed dozens of patients in Saudi Arabia. The 70-year-old was being treated in a negative-pressure room at Sotiria Hospital...

The doctors monitoring Greece's first confirmed patient of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have said that his condition still critical. The 69-year-old Greek man, a permanent resident of Saudi Arabia, returned to Greece on April 17 and after suffering prolonged high fever,...

Doctors in Greece on Friday confirmed the country's first case of a deadly respiratory that has already claimed 93 lives around the world. The Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) announced the first case in Greece of infection...