The deadly MERS virus has been identified in the U.S. for the first time, the latest indication of the spread of a disease that emerged two years ago in the Middle East. A health-care provider who returned to the U.S. a week ago after working at a health-care facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was sickened by the virus and is hospitalized in Indiana. What is MERS Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is viral … [Read more...]