Nearly two-thirds of South Korean healthcare workers are worried about hospital-acquired infections, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the survey, 65.3 percent of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other support personnel said there is a high chance of infections taking place in hospitals. It also showed that 81 percent of healthcare workers said if infections do occur in hospitals it can lead ...

South Korea reported an additional case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) on Saturday,bringing the total number of people diagnosed with the disease here to 182. No additional fatalities have been reported since Friday with the country's death toll standing at 31, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The latest case involved a nurse who apparently got infected while treatin...

South Korea's acting prime minister called on officials Tuesday to cope with the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome virus at a serious level to ensure it will not spread to local communities. The country has been maintaining an alert level of "caution", the third-highest warning in the country's four-tiered system since May 20 when its first outbreak of MERS was confirmed. "We need to respond ...

Tuberculosis is a more threatening infectious disease in South Korea than the MERS virus, a local doctor said Tuesday. Heo Dae-seog, professor of the internal medicine department at Seoul National University Hospital, said that TB spreads very easily through the air whereas Middle East Respiratory Syndrome spreads through direct contact. It is very unlikely that the MERS virus can be spread thr...

Camel food products are not imported into or distributed in South Korea, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday, amid criticism over the government's seemingly unrealistic advice on shunning camel meat and milk consumption to avoid Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. Since the first outbreak of the acute respiratory illness on May 20, South Korea has emerged as the world's second-most MERS-infected...