World Health Organization Asks Countries To Work Together To Combat MERS

Revelation 6:7,8 NCV When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"8 I looked, and there before me was a pale horse. Its rider was named death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill people by war, by starvation, by disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.

The World Health Organization is calling on governments to waive patient rights in connection to research on the novel coronavirus found in the middle east now called MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome).

Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Health Minister Ziad Memish spoke out at the World Health Assembly in Geneva after commercial laboratories around the world have hampered the country’s ability to develop a diagnostic test for the virus. MERS has been found more in Saudi Arabia than anywhere else in the world.

WHO chief Margaret Chan called out countries who have not shared information asking why they were allowing “other people to take intellectual property rights on a new disease”. She urged the 194 countries who are part of the WHO to share specimens and viruses with WHO centers.

The WHO confirmed another death from the virus in a previously unreported case. The virus currently has a 50% mortality rate. Ten of the deaths have been in Saudi Arabia.

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