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Patent by foreign laboratory delays cure for MERS: Saudi envoy to Oman
By Abhishek G Bhaya
July 31, 2013
Muscat -
Saudi Arabia?s efforts to tackle the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have been delayed because the patent for conducting research on the coronavirus that causes the infection has been taken by a Dutch laboratory, the Saudi Ambassador to Oman said.
Saudi Arabia has faced the brunt of the MERS crisis so far, recording 39 out of the 46 deaths reported from a total of 91 cases worldwide. ?We haven?t been able to go very far with diagnostics and finding a vaccine for the virus as of today. The main reason is that the virus was patented by a foreign laboratory and is not allowed to be used for investigations by other scientists,? H E Abdulaziz bin Sulaiman al Turki, Saudi Ambassador to Oman, told Muscat Daily...
Patent by foreign laboratory delays cure for MERS: Saudi envoy to Oman
By Abhishek G Bhaya
July 31, 2013
Muscat -
Saudi Arabia?s efforts to tackle the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) have been delayed because the patent for conducting research on the coronavirus that causes the infection has been taken by a Dutch laboratory, the Saudi Ambassador to Oman said.
Saudi Arabia has faced the brunt of the MERS crisis so far, recording 39 out of the 46 deaths reported from a total of 91 cases worldwide. ?We haven?t been able to go very far with diagnostics and finding a vaccine for the virus as of today. The main reason is that the virus was patented by a foreign laboratory and is not allowed to be used for investigations by other scientists,? H E Abdulaziz bin Sulaiman al Turki, Saudi Ambassador to Oman, told Muscat Daily...