MERS
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of MERS
First recorded in 2010–15
Example Sentences
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The idea for the coffee farm came from MERS, a Domain spokesman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
It wouldn’t be surprising, given that many viruses have been linked to bats, including the Ebola, Marburg, Nipah and Hendra viruses, as well as coronaviruses like SARS-1 and MERS.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025
That followed a $335-million deal for Simplifile in 2019, and the acquisition of MERS, in which ICE took a majority stake in 2016 and bought outright in 2018.
From Reuters ● Mar. 9, 2023
She showed that bat guano used as fertilizer by Thai farmers was contaminated with a coronavirus related to the cause of MERS, and she ranked the spillover potential of different animal viruses.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2022
The worst-case scenario would be a virus as contagious as the omicron variant and as deadly as MERS, where 35% of those infected die.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
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