Since the beginning of 2024, and as of 3 April, no MERS-CoV cases have been reported by WHO or national health authorities. The last reported case was in Saudi Arabia, with date of onset on 26 October 2023.
This issue of the ECDC Communicable Disease Threats Report (CDTR) covers the period 3-9 December 2023 and includes updates on respiratory virus epidemiology in the EU/EEA, SARS-CoV-2 variant classification, measles, mpox, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, West Nile virus, and MERS-CoV.
Since the beginning of 2023, and as of 5 December 2023, two MERS-CoV cases have been reported with the date of onset in 2023 by the United Arab Emirates (1) and Saudi Arabia (1).
Since the beginning of 2023, and as of 5 December 2023, two MERS-CoV cases have been reported with the date of onset in 2023 by the United Arab Emirates (1) and Saudi Arabia (1).