A 61-year-old South Korean man tested positive on Friday for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS,... after returning to Seoul from Kuwait via the UAE on a business trip that lasted about three weeks.<br />The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday the patient, identified only as a Seoul resident, received treatment at the Samsung Medical Center in southern Seoul.<br />He was then quarantined and transferred to Seoul National University Hospital.<br />21 others suspected of having come in contact with him are also under quarantine.<br />They'll be tested and monitored for the next two weeks, the virus's maximum incubation period.<br />In response, Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon has ordered an epidemiological investigation.<br />He will preside over an inter-ministerial meeting later today aimed at containing the virus.<br />The first case of MERS in Korea was confirmed in 2015,... and 38 people died... before the outbreak was declared over in December the same year. <br />
