Deadly MERS spreads in small cluster in South Korea
Thirty people have virus in outbreak, including China’s first case
![Monkey cell infected with the virus that causes MERS](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ti_mers_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
INFECTED The virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, (shown in yellow infecting a monkey cell in the lab) has sickened 1,179 people worldwide, including 30 in an outbreak in South Korea.
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