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A study published by the "New England Journal of Medicine" shows that the booster shot of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine restores protection against the Omicron variant.
2022-03-2

A research study published in "The New England Journal of Medicine" describes a significant mortality response to the immunotherapy Atezolizumab used in conjunction with the chemotherapy nab-paclitaxel for a type of untreatable Breast cancer (Triple-negative) when the tumors also display programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression.
2018-10-20

A South Korean man is diagnosed with the potentially deadly MERS virus and is being treated at a hospital in Seoul, the first such case in three years.
2018-09-8

South Korea announces an end to the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) outbreak that has killed 36 people since May 2015. The virus infected 186 people, with nearly 17,000 people confined to their homes and thousands of schools temporarily closing at the peak of the largest MERS outbreak outside Saudi Arabia, where it first appeared in 2012.
2015-12-23

The government of South Korea announces that it will provide maximum financial aid to hospitals and clinics affected by the MERS outbreak.
2015-06-24

South Korea reports three more deaths from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome bringing the death toll to 19 with 154 people diagnosed with the disease.
2015-06-16

The number of cases in an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome in South Korea rises to 12.
2015-05-29

South Korea confirms its third case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.
2015-05-21

Saudi Arabia announces 113 previously unreported cases of MERS, revises the death toll to 282, and fires its minister of health.
2014-06-3

The first U.S. case of MERS is reported in Munster, Indiana, in a person who travelled to Saudi Arabia.
2014-05-3