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[Newsmaker] MERS-stricken Samsung hospital faces crisis
June 16, 2015
Widely considered one of the top hospitals in South Korea, Samsung Medical Center is now being blamed for spreading Middle East respiratory syndrome in the country.As of Monday, 72 cases occurred within its premises in Gangnam-gu, southern Seoul, accounting for nearly half of the 150 Korean cases of the disease. The outbreak in the hospital alone is enough to rival United Arab Emirates, the world’s No. 3 country in terms of MERS cases with 76.An even bigger issue than the rising number of patien