WORLDWIDE CONTACT US ABOUT US INVENTING FOR LIFE PRODUCTS RESEARCH LICENSING NEWSROOM CAREERS INVESTORS Home EMPLOYEES RISING TO THE OCCASION A dangerous spider bite spurs our European Union supply chain team to go above and beyond to deliver an antidote. A spider on Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, bites a woman on the hand. Severe reaction sets in. She’s rushed to the hospital in the city of Nicosia. Nov. 7, 2 p.m. We received a call at our facility in Haarlem, Netherlands, from the hospital in Nicosia to see if we could provide a spider antitoxin. Flying into Action Our team quickly determined that the fastest way to get the antitoxin to the patient was to fly it there. We carried a batch of it from our Haarlem warehouse to the airport, flew to Cyprus and delivered it to the hospital at 2:30 p.m. local time on Nov. 8. The time from the call to delivery to the patient? 23.5 hours. That’s how our company and our people work together to rise to the occasion. Published December. 2017 Copyright. © 2009-2018 Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Forward-Looking Statement Privacy Terms of Use Site Map

WORLDWIDE CONTACT US ABOUT US INVENTING FOR LIFE PRODUCTS RESEARCH LICENSING NEWSROOM CAREERS INVESTORS Home It’s Personal LIVING WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES “I always thought of myself as a very healthy person. Sometimes I’m still surprised when I think about my diagnosis.” “One of the challenges in treating diabetes is many people will have it for a number of years before they’re even aware of it.” — Dr. Sam Engel, associate vice president, diabetes, endocrinology and women's health, Merck Research Laboratories THIS IS KAREN’S STORY DIABETES AND HEALTHY EATING Diet is an important part of an individualized diabetes management plan to help people with type 2 diabetes reach their A1C goal. In general, diabetes-friendly recipes are lower in: SODIUM CARBOHYDRATES SATURATED FATS TRANS FATS They are also higher in fiber compared with other dishes and include appropriate portion sizes. DIABETES AFFECTS APPROXIMATELY 425 MILLION ADULTS WORLDWIDE TYPE 2 DIABETES ACCOUNTS FOR APPROXIMATELY 90% OF ALL CASES OF DIAGNOSED DIABETES IN ADULTS Updated February 2018 Copyright. © 2009-2018 Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Forward-Looking Statement Privacy Terms of Use Site Map