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Merck & Co., Inc.
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Merck & Co., Inc. is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey, founded in 1891 as the United States subsidiary of the German chemical and pharmaceutical firm E. Merck, and became a fully independent company after its assets were seized by the US government during the First World War. It is known outside the United States and Canada as MSD, short for Merck Sharp & Dohme, to avoid confusion with the unrelated German company Merck KGaA, which retained rights to the Merck name in other markets, and it remains one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
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