MERS

The symptoms for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (or MERS) sound pretty familiar to me.

Trish and I were both feeling quite unwell when we were in Saudi Arabia but I don't think we got a full blown case of MERS. 

The symptoms are:

• Most people become unwell quickly, with fever, cough, shortness of breath, leading to pneumonia.
• Other symptoms include muscle pain, diarrhoea, vomiting and nausea.
• There have been people with mild symptoms and some have caught the virus but have no symptoms.

The feeling unwell, fever, cough and especially in Trish's case the 'nausea' seem to 'ring a bell' when we look back on how we felt during much of our stay in Saudi Arabia.

Maybe we had a milder form of the disease, I guess we will never know for sure.