The bride, 28, is a research scientist in the infectious disease division of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company in Cambridge, Mass.
He was on the board of trustees of the metabolic disease division of the National Institutes of Health for eight years.
Any vaccine for MERS will take much longer, said Mark A. Pallansch, director of the C.D.C.'s viral disease division.
It said Pfizer, whose most famous drug is Viagra, has a large anti-infectious disease division, giving it greater commercial strength to develop and sell the drugs.
His father is the chief of the infectious disease division at Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., and a professor of medicine at the State University at Stony Brook.
Dr. Charles Daley, head of the infectious disease division at National Jewish, said: "This discrepancy among results happens all the time in labs that do drug-resistance testing, including reference labs.
"Nobody knows where it comes from, it's endemic, it's ubiquitous," said Dr. Jerome Levine, chief of the infectious disease division at Hackensack University Medical Center.
The health consequences cut across lines of class, said Dr. Peter Leone, medical director of the H.I.V. and sexually transmitted disease division of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
"In our culture we have not addressed these issues because, probably, we did not think they were important," said Carlos M. Carazo, director of the animal disease division of Puerto Rico's State Office for Animal Control, in an interview in San Juan last month.
