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Majorities in 24 Countries Surveyed Concerned of MERS Cases Presenting in Their Country in the Near Future

Awareness Not Yet Widespread but Support for Screening Travelers, Reconsidering Travel Plans is High

On the heels of being declared to not yet be a health emergency by the World Health Organization, majorities in 24 countries nonetheless express concern that there might be cases of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in their country in the near future. MERS is an outbreak in certain countries of a virus that people are comparing to SARS which occurred in 2003. The poll, released by global company Ipsos provided exclusively to Reuters, finds that awareness is still not high as only minorities in all but six of all countries studied have seen, read or heard about MERS.

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