Data reports bring number of cases up to 688. After a review on health data, Saudi Arabia has found an additional 113 confirmed cases of the dangerous Middle East Respiratory Syndrome that had not been previously recorded.
CDC confirmed the first case of MERS in the United States on Thursday. A fatal and untreatable virus that first showed up in Saudi Arabia, and that researchers and health officials know alarmingly little about, has made its way out of the Arabian Peninsula and into the global community.
