Why Blaming Dromedary Camels for spreading MERS?

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Alan Hecht

This link should get you started. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25248734

Maurizio Dioli

and this other article may keep you going

Shamsudeen Faisal Fagbo

The question leads to another: how many laboratory confirmed cases of MERS have been definitively or unequivocally linked to camels?

Arvind Singh

Dromedary camels are the main reservoir host for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

Chapter The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)

Please also go through the following RG links.

Article Cross-sectional prevalence study of MERS-CoV in local and im...

Article Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in D...

Article A systematic review of MERS-CoV seroprevalence and RNA preva...

Frank T. Edelmann

Dear Dr. Abdul Raziq Kakar thank you for this interesting technical question. In addition to the valuable links provided by Arvind Singh please also have a look at the following recent article:

Why camels are worrying coronavirus hunters

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210122-the-coronavirus-10-times-more-deadly-than-covid

The author comes to the conclusion that "Scientists are working hard to stop the next pandemic, testing camels and people alike. But in a changing world that makes it ever easier for diseases to jump from animals to humans, the question remains of whether testing and prevention will be enough."

and this should make everybody very worried (from my RG question : https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_a_possibility_that_the_coronavirus_causing_Covid-19_could_hybridize_with_the_coronavirus_causing_Middle_East_Respiratory_Syndrome_MERS-CoV )

"As I predicted patients are beginning to be found in KSA with simultaneous SARS-CoV-2 and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV):

Article Severe Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and M...

An insufficient control of COVID-19 in the Arabian countries means that, by a statistical probability, is just a matter of time before (thanks to MERS) a COVID-19 variant emerges with increased virulence and partial/total immunity to the existing vaccines.