MERS outbreak: 2,300-plus quarantined; 1,300 schools closed in South Korea

Adam Winters

Recently in South Korea, an outbreak of the virus MERS has come to attention in the past days.  Currently, 2,300 people are being quarantined and 1,381 schools will be closed in Seoul for the next couple of days.  The virus has claimed the lives of five people and sixty-four people are currently suffering.  Also, 1,500 people have been asked to self-quarantine themselves because of the chance they were exposed at a seminar they attended where a doctor spoke who supposedly has MERS. Kang Shin-myun, Seoul chief of police, said it will enforce quarantine orders for those suspected of having MERS.  MERS as of now is a virus we know very little about and it first emerged three years ago.  What we do know is it spreads from close contact and it first came form Saudi Arabia.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/07/world/south-korea-mers-outbreak/index.html