(CNN)South Korea's capital began asking more than 1,200 people Thursday to self-quarantine -- and is considering measures to force their isolation -- because they unknowingly attended a symposium with a doctor who was infected with MERS, the mayor of Seoul said. The announcement by Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon came amid a MERS outbreak in South Korea, where the respiratory virus has killed three people since May and more than 900 schools have been shut to prevent the virus's spread. A doctor -- the 35th and latest person confirmed to have Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in South Korea -- attended the symposium in Seoul in late May, after he began to have...
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