UN experts warn of "critical k**wledge gaps" on Saudi MERS virus

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* Middle East Respiratory Syndrome still largely a mystery * Some 50 people infected with MERS in Saudi so far this month * Respiratory disease kills up to 40 percent of its victims By Kate Kelland LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has **t done e**ugh to investigate and control a deadly new MERS virus that has killed hundreds of people there and remains in many ways a mystery, United Nations health experts said on Monday. Cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) are surging again, but Saudi health officials and scientists appear unable to explain where the infections start and how they spread, the UN experts said. The UN group - a international delegation of scientists and public health experts from World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Organization for Animal Health - visited Saudi Arabia last week to investigate a sharp rise in MERS cases.

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