MERS is quite dangerous it seems! But the chances of being infected by another human is small. Did you have contact with animals on that trip? Some believe that MERS will be the next pandemic. They might engineer it so that it can jump easily from human to human, while it's currently zoonotic. (animal to human) Robb Wolf did an interesting article on this a while back;
"...MERS has a legit, not fudged numbers, 30-35% case fatality rate. One need not fiddle with numbers in the case of MERS to make it look bad, it’s bad. The only thing going for us with regards to MERS, it HISTORICALLY it is remarkably difficult to catch..."
One of the most fascinating elements to this whole COVID story (to me anyway) is the reality the US government, specifically Dr. Tony Fauci, NSAID/NIH funded gain of function research that resulted in either the accidental, or possibly, deliberate, release of an engineered virus that has killed...
robbwolf.substack.com