North Korea claimed to have developed a cure for MERS and other viral infections, the Korean Central News Agency reported Friday.

Choi Chang Sik, the chief researcher at the Public Health Administration Lab in the North’s Ministry of Public Health told state media that North Korea’s Kumdang-2 injection can cure many immunity-related disease such as MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus).

He explained that the MERS virus infects those who have weaker immune function than others. Thus, according to him, the best way to prevent infection from MERS would be to increase the level of immunity in one’s body.

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