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Inside Story - MERS: Who owns medical research?

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    Published on Jun 21, 2013



    The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, is a virus that has already killed more than three dozen people, and thr

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    Published on Jun 21, 2013



    The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, is a virus that has already killed more than three dozen people, and threatens to become a global concern.

    The need for a vaccine against the virus is becoming increasingly vital, but a dispute over patents appears to be slowing everything down.

    So, should any one entity own the sole right to create a vaccine? Or should science act for the whole of humanity? To discuss this, Inside Story, with presenter David Foster, is joined by guests: Ab Osterhaus, the head of the department of virology at Erasmus University; Peter Saunders, professor at the Institute of Science in Society; and Edward Hammond, from the Third World Network, who is also a patent specialist.

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  • number1 user vaccine against the virus is being prevented by money, people will continue to die over patents