MERS outbreak becomes more urgent
May-15-2014

The spread of the potentially fatal Middle East respiratory syndrome has become more serious and urgent, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

At the same time, WHO said that -- for now, at least -- the illness known as MERS does not constitute a global health emergency

Declaring an emergency is "a major act" that can "raise anxieties," said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the organization's assistant director-general for health security.

Despite concerns about the syndrome, researchers have not found "any increasing evidence of person-to-person transmissibility," he said.

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