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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

South Korean health authorities announce that they are searching for around 50 foreign nationals who may have been in contact with the recently confirmed MERS patient, including those who arrived in Incheon Airport from Dubai on the same flight last Friday.
2018-09-11

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

Four people have now died of MERS in South Korea with five new cases reported. [http:--www.bangkokpost.com-news-asia-583563-fourth-korean-dies-in-mers-outbreak (AFP via "Bangkok Post")]date=August 2019
2015-06-5

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

The Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), were so concerned about a study released today in "The New England Journal of Medicine", that they are launching another new study about why so many people are becoming infected by or exposed to the potentially deadly "Clostridium difficile" (""C. diff."") bacterium after going to the doctor's or dentist's office.
2015-02-25

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