PARIS: The new MERS coronavirus that has claimed dozens of lives in the Middle East does not yet have the ability to trigger a pandemic, but vigilance is needed in case it mutates, French scientists said on Friday.

“Our analysis suggests that MERS-CoV does not yet have pandemic potential,” they reported online in The Lancet.

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