North Korea Claims to Have Developed A Cure for MERS
What is likely going on here is that North Korea is using the MERS crisis in South Korea for maximum domestic propaganda purposes. The Kim regime is able to claim that their government has been able to develop a cure for MERS unlike the South Koreans who a dieing from the virus. I would not be surprised if the domestic propaganda had a racist element to it criticizing the South Koreans for contracting these diseases by mixing with dirty foreigners in the first place. For those that are not familiar with North Korea’s race based nationalism I highly recommend reading B.R. Myers great book, “The Cleanest Race“:
North Korea said Friday it has developed an injection that is highly effective in preventing and curing the MERS virus and other contagious diseases.
But doubts have arisen over the credibility of its claim given its poor health care system.
North Korea’s Pugang Pharmaceutic Co. has developed “Kumdang-2,” made of extracts from ginseng with the injection of rare earth elements, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.
“As a strong immune-activator, the injection has been recognized to prevent different malignant epidemics,” the KCNA said, citing remarks by Jon Sung-hun, a doctor and director of the pharmaceutical company.
The report came as South Korea has confirmed the 24th death from and 166 infections of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome since the first case was reported in May.
The reclusive North’s claim couldn’t be verified independently by the outside world. Observers here said chances are slim that the North has developed such an injection, given that many North Koreans are suffering from tuberculosis and other diseases amid a lack of vaccination and the poor health care system. [Yonhap]
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“North Koreans are suffering from tuberculosis and other diseases amid a lack of vaccination…”
Any health problems in nK are not due to a lack of vaccines. More vaccines do not equate to better health. Take the US for example: The CDC vaccine schedule now calls for 53 vaccinations by age 6, yet the US ranks dead last in overall health among the 34 OECD countries. Vaccines have NOTHING to do with health.
Now that I’m off that rant, I’ll opine that Kumgang-2 stuff probably works better than most pharmaceutical antibiotics. Personally, I would treat MERS with heavy doses of colloidal silver.
“Take the US for example: The CDC vaccine schedule now calls for 53 vaccinations by age 6, yet the US ranks dead last in overall health among the 34 OECD countries. Vaccines have NOTHING to do with health.”
This is one of those false dichotomies.
On the one hand, you are right that vaccinations are no panacea for every ailment and more vaccinations aren’t necessarily better. On the other, you’ve crossed over into the absurd to claim that “vaccines have NOTHING to do with health.” WAY over.
Some vaccinations are very helpful (ask a person crippled from polio), others pointless or even potentially harmful.
Just to add (though this is probably obvious) OECD countries basically all have vaccination schedules, though they aren’t all the same vaccinations. TB vaccinations are virtually useless (for rough example).