The second case of the potentially deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a viral respiratory illness, has been confirmed in Florida, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced. Officials from the Florida Department of Health and the CDC are investigating the latest case.

MERS was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and is caused by the coronavirus called MERS-CoV. The majority of people in which this viral infection was confirmed developed severe acute respiratory illness. Symptoms generally include a cough, fever, and shortness of breath. Approximately 30 percent of those who contracted the virus died, according to the official CDC website.

The first reported U.S. case was in Indiana in early May. The affected individual has since left the hospital and is recovering in home isolation, state health officials have said.

The patient in Indiana, an American health care provider, had been working in Saudi Arabia and was visiting family in Indiana.

The patient in Florida is also a health care worker who lives and works in Saudi Arabia, according Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. She notes that the cases are not linked and said in a statement that, “This virus has not shown the ability to spread easily from person to person in community settings.” She confirms that the risk to the general public is very low.

According to Schuchat, the virus has spread from one person to the next in some countries, but primarily in close contact, such as a caregiver for an ill person.