WORLDWIDE CONTACT US ABOUT US INVENTING FOR LIFE PRODUCTS RESEARCH LICENSING NEWSROOM CAREERS INVESTORS Home It's Personal Living with Breast Cancer “After having gone through breast cancer and four surgeries, I have a new outlook on life.” In 2015, Merck Animal Health employee Marion Weston was diagnosed with breast cancer. “Never in a million years would I have ever thought I was going to get a phone call as I pulled into my garage at 5 p.m saying ‘you have breast cancer’,” she remembers. “I sat in the garage, it was devastating. I called my mom, told my daughter ... I think my phone call to my daughter was the hardest.” “For a patient with breast cancer, as well as any patient with cancer, there are different steps in the process. The first is the surprise and realization that there is a disease that needs to be addressed. There can be fear about the future. And eventually, there is an adjustment and the realization that one has to do what needs to be done so that you can move forward with your life” – Vassiliki Karantza, M.D., senior director, Merck Clinical Research, Oncology THIS IS MARION’S STORY BREAST CANCER FACTS About 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer during their lifetime. In 2017, there are more than 3.1 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the U.S., except for skin cancer. Published Oct. 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 Closing the Circle on Rabies For more than a decade, Merck Animal Health has contributed to the fight against rabies. Africa Afya Serengeti Project India Mission Rabies Africa and India together bear the burden of 80 percent of total annual rabies deaths. Rabies affects domestic and wild animals. Dogs are the source of the vast majority of human rabies deaths. While not much of a threat in industrialized countries because of widespread and effective programs to prevent dog to human transmission, rabies remains a common and dangerous threat in many parts of the world. Did you Know... Rabies is... a 100 percent preventable disease. caused by a virus that attacks the nervous system and is transmitted between species through a bite or scratch from an infected person or animal. And, that... exposure to rabid dogs is still the cause of more than 90 percent of human exposures to rabies and of more than 99 percent of human deaths worldwide. 100% PREVENTABLE Updated September 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