Netcast TWiV 247: Today’s weather in virology August 25, 2013 Tagged as: bat, coronavirus, Egyptian tomb bat, email, ian lipkin, listener questions, MERS-CoV, Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome, Saudi Arabia, Taphozous perforatus, viral, virology, virus Ian joins Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Kathy to describe how his laboratory is searching for the origin of MERS-coronavirus.