Individuals who have contact with MERS-infected camels have not been reinfected since 2012, suggesting potential protection.

“with MERS those camels keep transmitting and transmitting and people who come from herds where they're close to those animals those are the same animals that infected them if they go back to and it turns out that I'm not aware of anyone since 2012 almost eight years who have been infected going back into a high relatively high infection rate in their own animals have ever gotten reinfected again the assumption that I think we have to be careful about does that mean they're really protected or not but we haven't seen that again so I mean that's probably the only take away and come within it”