A man from Egypt recently returned from Saudi Arabia and is now confirmed to have contracted MERS, a potentially deadly respiratory virus that appeared more than a year ago.

According to Reuters, the man is from the Nile Delta and was staying in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. No country has been hit harder by the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) than Saudi Arabia, but the virus has now spread from the Gulf to Europe.

He is being treated in Cairo and is in stable condition, but since it was discovered in Sept. 2012, MERS has killed 92 people and infected 313. Saudi Arabia's health ministry reported Friday it had 14 new cases of MERS.

In the global scope, MERS has not had a large impact and is not considered an epidemic, like SARS was. In fact, MERS has apparently been a far less severe version of SARS. MERS still has a 40 percent death rate, causing scientists and health officials to keep close tabs on it.

CNN reported Saturday that five of the 14 new MERS patients had died within the last 24 hours. Dr. Abdullah Al-Asiri, the Saudi Ministry of Health's assistant undersecretary, said there is no apparent reason for the sudden uptick in cases.

"We have faced an increase in the number of cases around the same time last year at the end of winter," he said in a statement, according to the Saudi Press Agency.

The World Health Organization said it was "concerned" with the new rash of virus infections and has urged world leaders to send their health officials and scientists to help find a vaccine.

Scientists previously found a near-perfect match linking the virus to a certain type of bat in Saudi Arabia, but have yet to come up with a vaccine. The bats most likely infected camels, who then infected the earliest of MERS patients.