The Centers for Disease Control is using its playbook from the 2003 SARS virus scare to handle a new pandemic that has killed 173 people in the Middle East.
SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome, killed 774 people, but the new Middle Ease Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is seen as even more dangerous because it has killed one in three people who have come into contact with it, compared to one in 10 for the 2003 virus.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/206375-how-the-centers-for-disease-control-is-preventing-pandemic-from-spreading#ixzz326TXwYlX
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