Bangladesh has confirmed the first case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS) after a man returned from the US via Abu Dhabi was found afflicted with it. Mahmudur Rahman director of Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control & Research (IEDCR) said Sunday that the man was recuperating in a hospital bdnews24.com reported. 'We have notified it to the WHO' he said. Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that cause a range of illnesses in humans from the common cold to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The virus was first identified in 2012 in Saudi