MERS outbreak becomes more urgentMay 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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