Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus MERS CoV causes severe acute respiratory illness with a case fatality rate CFR of 35,5 . The highest number of MERS CoV cases are from Saudi Arabia, the major worldwide hotspot for this disease. In the absence of neither effective treatment nor a ready to use vaccine and with yet an incomplete understanding of its epidemiological cycle, prevention and containment measures can be derived from mathematical models of disease epidemiology. ...