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world, from an animal reservoir, the path can be mixed. we saw with sars a meat animal being sold seemed to be the original source, that was getting into human beings that way. other infections we have seen bats be an original source but not the direct source necessarily. we have seen bats transmit the infection to pigs or horses, not mers but other viruses. animals in between the original source and humans can be part of the pathway. so difficult to pin do you. how is it spread? what we know so far is based on early and limited information, but what we can say for sure is it doesn t seem to spread from person-to-person very efficiently. doesn t spread across a group of people like chickenpox in a summer camp. instead it seems to be related to really close contact with somebody who is actively sick. so people who have taken care of a sick family member, peek worming in health care people working in the health care settings. what are the symptoms? mers causes a ....