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WHO calls Middle Eastern virus, MERS, ‘threat to the entire world’ as death toll rises
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 07:08 AM EDT
How is it original? It is the basis of the entire MI2 plot line!

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WHO calls Middle Eastern virus, MERS, ‘threat to the entire world’ as death toll rises
Authored by: mtew on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 08:13 AM EDT
This could become very strange...

Could the patent owner be held liable for the damage done by
the 'agent' they own?

I think PJ has it right on this one. This kind of patent has much more
down-side potential than it has up-side potential.

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MTEW

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Does the WHO have authority to nullify the patent?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 10:44 AM EDT
Nations can ignore patents in severe medical conditions and this would be one.
But then not many nations recognize patents on biological entities.

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MERS
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 01:22 PM EDT
"The Dutch researchers said that they patented the virus in order to spark
drug companies’ interest in developing a vaccine and denied that they had kept
the virus from anyone."

I find the above a very interesting statement.

Should we take that to mean that they rather than keep it away from people they
actually released it on people - "to spark drug companies' interest" -
and reap royalties...?

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Overreaction
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 29 2013 @ 03:59 PM EDT
By MERS,
The virus has already been sent free of charge to many public research and health institutions that can work with it safely
I admit to a shiver down my spine when I first read of the Saudi scientist who "posted" the sample to Holland. Now we have the Dutch (possibly in response to public outrage on the patent?) sending samples across the globe to all and sundry, of a deadly, largely unknown virus. Who are those four men on horseback?

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