“Three more people in Saudi Arabia have become infected with the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus and one has died, the [WHO] said on Thursday, and it also confirmed the first MERS case in Oman,” Reuters reports (Kelland, 10/31). “Globally, from September 2012 to date, WHO has been informed of a total of 149 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with MERS-CoV, including 63 deaths,” a WHO update states (10/31). According to Xinhua, “preliminary epidemiological investigations revealed that [the man diagnosed with MERS in Oman] did not recently travel outside the country, said the WHO,” but “investigations are currently ongoing to determine what exposures might be responsible for his infection, it said” (11/1).