Author: Lee, Hye-Young; Oh, Mi-Na; Park, Yong-Shik; Chu, Chaeshin; Son, Tae-Jong
Title: Public Health Crisis Preparedness and Response in Korea Document date: 2013_10_23
ID: 42b11fr8_12
Snippet: In case an emerging infectious disease is imported, the national crisis phase's level is "Caution" and the Central Human Infection Countermeasure Squad (CHICS) is formed in KCDC and conducts a role of control tower to manage the crisis ( Figure 3 ). As of August 2013, CHICS is under operation in the "Attention" phase to cope preemptively with avian influenza A (H7N9) human infection that occurred in China in March 2013, although no imported case .....
Document: In case an emerging infectious disease is imported, the national crisis phase's level is "Caution" and the Central Human Infection Countermeasure Squad (CHICS) is formed in KCDC and conducts a role of control tower to manage the crisis ( Figure 3 ). As of August 2013, CHICS is under operation in the "Attention" phase to cope preemptively with avian influenza A (H7N9) human infection that occurred in China in March 2013, although no imported case or incidence has been reported in Korea to-date. It is necessary to monitor imported cases or the second epidemic in China even though the possibility of pandemic is small with no evidence of person-to-person transmission with consideration of geographical distance and frequent business
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