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                    [Title] => World Health Organization: MERS isn't an emergency
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The spread of a puzzling respiratory virus in the Middle East and beyond is not a global health emergency despite a recent spike in cases, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-15 07:04:03 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488805 [AuthorName] => Maria Cheng [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1281771 [Title] => Bird flu spikes in China ahead of Lunar New Year [Summary] =>

A spate of bird flu cases since the beginning of the year in China has experts watching closely as millions of people and poultry are on the move ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, the world's largest annual human migration.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-22 16:07:08 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488655 [AuthorName] => Margie Mason [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 908740 [Title] => SARS-linked virus may have spread between people [Summary] =>

British officials say a mysterious virus related to SARS may have spread between humans, as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus in a patient who they say probably caught it from a family member.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-14 09:42:31 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1765/britaincoronavirusguti.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 854219 [Title] => Animals suspected in spread of new virus [Summary] =>

Britain's Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might end up being implicated too.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-29 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 853886 [Title] => Animals suspected in spread of new virus [Summary] =>

Britain's Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might end up being implicated too.

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The World Health Organization said Monday it is too soon to say whether there could be an outbreak of a SARS-like killer respiratory disease after health officials in Britain announced they detected a related virus in a severely ill patient from the Middle East.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 486358 [Title] => WHO: No licensed swine flu vaccine til end of year [Summary] => LONDON (AP) -- A fully licensed swine flu vaccine might not be available until the end of the year, a top official at the World Health Organization said Monday, in a report that could affect many countries' vaccination plans. [DatePublished] => 2009-07-14 08:35:10 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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