S KOREA IS THIRD NOW BEHIND THE UAE AND SAUDI ARABIA TO HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED TO HAVE MERS AS 35 PEOPLE ARE NOW INFECTED AND 2 DEATHS WITH A 40% FATALITY RATE WITH NO VACCINES TO CURE AS UP TO 1300 PEOPLE QUARANTINED IN THE PENINSULA IN JUST 2 WEEKS TIME

Five more cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or MERS have been confirmed in Korea bringing to total number of cases to 35 as of this Thursday morning.
Two medical staff are known to be among the five newly infected patients.
A concerning turn of events in the nation's military as well, after a chief sergeant at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek tested positive for the virus at a military hospital late Wednesday.
The officer had previously been hospitalized at a civilian facility in Gyeonggi-do Province that treated MERS patients.
The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will make the final confirmation on Thursday at the earliest.
The military immediately isolated the officer and some 100 other soldiers stationed at the same air base.
Health authorities have so far placed more than 13-hundred people in quarantine in their homes or in state-run medical facilities to try and stop the virus spreading.
The government on Wednesday announced the establishment of a task force comprised of health authorities and local experts to serve as a control tower to deal with the outbreak.
As another preventative measure, almost six-hundred schools and preschools have decided to temporarily close for the remainder of this week, with the majority of them in Gyeonggi-do Province where the first MERS case was reported.
The MERS virus has killed two people in Korea since the outbreak began on May 20th.

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THE NUMBER PEOPLE THAT HAS THE MERS INFECTION WORLDWIDE:

JUNE 5TH LATEST MERS INFECTION IS 42 WITH 4 DEATHS IN KOREA:

JUNE 6TH LATEST MERS INFECTION IS 50 WITH 4 DEATHS IN KOREA: 

JUNE 10TH LATEST MERS INFECTION IS 108 WITH 9 DEATHS (AGED 55 AND OLDER) IN KOREA: 

JULY 5TH LATEST MERS INFECTION IS 186 WITH 33 DEATHS, 116 FULLY RECOVERED, AND 37 STILL BEING TREATED OF WHICH 12 ARE CRITICAL