The first known case of MERS-CoV have surfaced in Greece, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Tunisia and the U.K. The case in Greece has been traced to a gentleman who traveled from Jeddah, Saudi having previously being misdiagnosed with Typhoid fever. This new case shows how fast infectious diseases can travel and the importance of temperature monitoring as the method of first detection. An individual who tested positive for MERS-CoV and is fevered has the potential to spread the virus through either casual contact or surface transmission spread. 
Air travel creates a hub of infection spread which must be controlled in the airports to keep MERS-CoV from being a global epidemic. Since the time of the SARS virus, the Hong Kong airport screens passengers coming and going for temperature. The importance of temperature monitoring could mean the difference between one person exposing the virus to hundreds of people.
Without the proper monitoring systems in place infectious diseases will continue to spread. The spread of MERS is preventable and predictable.