Hospital at centre of South Korea's Mers suspends services as death toll reaches 15

Seoul

A SOUTH Korean hospital suspended most services on Sunday after being identified as the epicentre of the spread of a deadly respiratory disease that has killed 15 people since being diagnosed in the country nearly four weeks ago.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called an emergency meeting for Tuesday on South Korea's "large and complex" outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers), the biggest outside Saudi Arabia, where it was first identified in humans in 2012.