Patient-to-Patient Transmission of the MERS Coronavirus

In France, a 64-year-old renal-transplant recipient who had recently visited Dubai was hospitalized with fever, chills, myalgia, and diarrhea. He subsequently developed pneumonia, respiratory failure (which was treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation [ECMO]), and renal failure and died of multiple organ failure. A 51-year-old man who had not traveled abroad but had shared a hospital room with patient 1 for 3 days during the acute illness developed fever, chills, and myalgia 9 …