Emerging infections and sensationalism: in Aesop's fable, the boy who cried wolf had a dreadful fate

Abstract


In this issue of CMI, Memish et al. [1] show that circulation of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia is much lower than was feared, announced, or predicted. One year after the discovery of this novel coronavirus, the Saudi Arabian Virology Reference Laboratory has t