An old man suffering from fever and shortness of breath died recently in South Korea. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, he was being treated for pneumonia, but it turned out he died of MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), a highly contagious disease he probably contracted in the hospital.
The original carrier appears to have contracted it after visiting a camel farm in the Middle East. Like many other contagious diseases, MERS is zoonotic, meaning it is passed between animals....