This is an archive article published on April 26, 2014
Opinion Unhealthy secrecy
From a leader in ‘The Washington Post’.
April 26, 2014 12:40 AM IST
First published on: Apr 26, 2014 at 12:40 AM IST
On Sunday, the Saudi health minister, Abdullah al-Rabiah, struck a reassuring tone as the kingdom reported a surge in cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome, a novel coronavirus known as MERS.
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He said he didn’t think it necessary to change preventive measures and insisted that authorities were taking all due precautions. On Monday, he was fired by King Abdullah.
We recommend to Saudi leaders the experience of China, which learned painfully in the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic a decade ago about the high costs of secrecy to human health and welfare.
From a leader in ‘The Washington Post’
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