By taking a One Health approach to fighting MERS, relevant stakeholders come together to drive control and response models to outbreaks of this trans-boundary, zoonotic and emerging animal disease. Dr Al Muhairi explains how this approach works in practice, and discusses a series of upcoming scientific papers on the matter.

The WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean hosted a training workshop in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 23 to 25 October 2018. The workshop focused on establishing a global pool of experts on Middle East respiratory syndrome, to build on regional MERS expertise and knowledge and to establish a pool of rapidly deployable experts who can respond to any future MERS outbreaks in the Region and beyond.