Here I am in the Middle East, and a coronavirus has developed that is being called the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS. MERS has a nearly 50% mortality rate, and the CDC website claims that it has not yet reached the U.S. Really? That seems highly unlikely. Given the amount of travel between the U.S. and everywhere, and given the massive troop movements through the middle east, I am surprised at this news. Here is the CDC link:http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/.