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PARIS ? The new MERS coronavirus that has claimed dozens of lives in the Middle East does not yet have the ability to trigger a pandemic, but vigilance is needed in case it mutates, French scientists said on Friday.
"Our analysis suggests that MERS-CoV does not yet have pandemic potential," they reported online in The Lancet.
But they urged health watchdogs to keep up their guard and pursue the search for the virus' bolthole in nature.
"We recommend enhanced surveillance, active contact tracing and vigorous searches for the MERS-CoV animal hosts and transmission routes to human beings," said the Pasteur Institute team which conducted the research.
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"Our analysis suggests that MERS-CoV does not yet have pandemic potential," they reported online in The Lancet.
But they urged health watchdogs to keep up their guard and pursue the search for the virus' bolthole in nature.
"We recommend enhanced surveillance, active contact tracing and vigorous searches for the MERS-CoV animal hosts and transmission routes to human beings," said the Pasteur Institute team which conducted the research.
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