North Korea claims it has cure for MERS, AIDS, SARS, Ebola
North Korea claims it has produced a single miracle drug that can prevent and cure the deadly diseases of MERS, AIDS, Ebola, and SARS.
The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday that scientists have developed the drug, Kumdang-2, from ginseng and rare-earth elements mixed with very small amounts of gold and platinum.
MERS stands for the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
Back in 2006 and 2013, North Korea claimed the same drug could cure deadly bird flu outbreaks. According to the pro-North Korea website Minjok Tongshin, the drug was originally developed in 1996.
The report comes as South Korea is battling a MERS outbreak, which has killed two dozen people so far.
Meanwhile, South Korean President Park Geun-hye has held a meeting with World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan on Seoul’s measures aimed at containing MERS and related cooperation between South Korea and the UN health agency.
MERS, a variant of the SARS virus, causes coughing, fever, pneumonia and kidney failure, but it does not appear to be as contagious as SARS, which swept the Far East and killed some 800 people in a 2003 epidemic.
The vast majority of MERS infections and deaths have been reported in Saudi Arabia, where more than 950 people have been infected and 412 have died of the illness.
There is no vaccine for MERS, which has a mortality rate of 35 percent, according to the WHO.
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