How to Use MERS in a Sentence

MERS

noun

• About four in every 10 people who have a MERS infection die of the illness, and there is no cure or vaccine.
  — Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2025
• The far less transmissible coronaviruses SARS and MERS killed 15 and 35 percent, respectively.
  — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
• In my own research on Ebola, SARS and MERS, my colleagues and I have shown that the speed at which infected people are identified and removed from the community is one of the strongest determinants of outbreak size.
  — John Drake, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• South Korea’s experience with an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2015 prompted the government to update national laws and lay the bureaucratic and technological foundations for an efficient contact-tracing system.
  — Jeremy Hsu, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2020
• Along with finding treatments for a host of other serious diseases, Fauci was instrumental in making strides to fight AIDS, Ebola, MERS, SARS, swine flu, and in developing drugs to counteract bioterrorism after 9/11.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026