A high percentage of camel handlers in Saudi Arabia are seropositive for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. We found that 12/100 camel handlers and their family members in Pakistan, a country with extensive camel MERS-CoV infection, were seropositive, indicating that MERS-CoV infection of these populations extends beyond the Arabian Peninsula.
Keywords: MERS-CoV; Middle East respiratory syndrome; Pakistan; camel handlers; coronavirus; pneumonia; respiratory infections; viruses; zoonoses.