How did MERS originate?

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Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) originated from camels. This discovery was made more quickly compared to the identification of the intermediate host of SARS, which took 14 years to identify the civet cat as the culprit. The faster discovery in the case of MERS highlights the progress in scientific inquiry and investigation techniques over the years 1.

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