Social Affairs
S. Korea confirms 2 additional MERS cases
May 29, 2015
South Korea confirmed two additional cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome on Friday, raising the number of patients diagnosed with the virus to nine.The two were found to have been infected with the potentially fatal disease from a 68-year-old patient, the country's first confirmed MERS case, according to the health ministry.One of them was a 30-year-old female medical staff who treated the first confirmed MERS patient, while the other, who is 56 years old, stayed at the same hospital w