MERS was first identified in September 2012 in a 60-year-old man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, who presented with pneumonia complicated by renal failure [31]. Sporadic cases were reported outside of the Middle East up until 2015, when an outbreak in South Korea occurred with 186 confirmed infections and 38 deaths [32]. MERS has established associations with encephalomyelitis, vasculitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), and encephalitis of the brain stem [21].