There is no known antiviral or vaccine for the MERS virus. So far it does not appear to transmit rapidly among humans in a way that could create a pandemic, although some transmission has occurred among those in close contact. It has infected 701 people and killed 287 in Saudi Arabia, with additional cases elsewhere. Public health experts have been puzzled and frustrated for most of the past two years about why so little information about the virus and the outbreak was coming out of Saudi Arabia, governed as a closed society by rulers who do not permit — and often punish — dissent.
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