“Six more people, most of them health care workers, have contracted the deadly MERS virus in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the [WHO] said Thursday,” Agence France-Presse reports (7/18). “The latest infections of four women and two men aged between 26 and 42 bring the global total to 88 cases, including 45 deaths, the United Nations agency said in a statement,” Reuters writes, adding, “Five of the six new cases were health workers and the other was a man who came in close contact with someone who had been infected with the disease, which is known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, or MERS, WHO said” (7/18). “The report comes a day after a panel of experts assembled by the [WHO] concluded that the MERS situation is a serious concern but does not yet constitute an international public health emergency,” CIDRAP News notes (Roos, 7/18).