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Newshour: South Korea warned over MERS

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13/06/2015

South Korea warned over MERS

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Doctors may help MERS spread; Gun attack on Dallas police; WB Yeats anniversary

The World Health Organisation warns South Korea over MERS; Gunmen open fire on Dallas police after ramming patrol car; Poet WB Yeats celebrated on 150th anniversary;

The World Health organisation has warned that South Korean doctors' lack of familiarity with MERS may have helped spread the deadly disease; Gunshots have been fired at police in Dallas after an armoured van rammed patrol cars near the police headquarters in the city; The work of the Nobel Prize winning Irish poet, W.B. Yeats, is being celebrated on the 150th anniversary of his birth. Image copyright AFP.

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