MERS

American  

[murz] / mɜrz /

noun

Pathology.

1. Middle East(ern) Respiratory Syndrome: an often fatal respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus similar to the SARS virus and characterized by fever, coughing, and shortness of breath.

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Etymology

Origin of MERS

First recorded in 2010–15

Example Sentences

“We’ve had three pandemics or epidemics in the past 20 years: first SARS, then MERS, then SARS-CoV-2,” said Caltech biochemist Pamela Bjorkman, who led the new work.

From Los Angeles Times

Kerr, who by that time was a senior biosecurity official at HHS, cited MERS, the coronavirus that had emerged in 2012 and that over the next seven years would kill 866 people abroad.

From Washington Post

The team set out to use what they had learned about the spike on the common cold virus to steady the proteins on their real adversary, MERS.

From Seattle Times

Measures like curfews, deployed in many parts of the world in the early days of the pandemic, weren’t effective at containing what was a much more contagious virus than MERS.

From Seattle Times

The idea for the coffee farm came from MERS, a Domain spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal