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Mon, September 25, 2023 | 02:55
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WHO team joins fight against MERS
WHO 메르스합동평가단 내일부터 활동 시작
Posted : 2015-06-08 16:15
Updated : 2015-06-08 19:33
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Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general for health security at the World Health Organization, passes through the fever check point at Incheon International Airport along with his colleagues, Monday. The WHO team will work with the Korean government to examine the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in Korea./ Yonhap
Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general for health security at the World Health Organization, passes through the fever check point at Incheon International Airport along with his colleagues, Monday. The WHO team will work with the Korean government to examine the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome epidemic in Korea.
/ Yonhap

By Kim Rahn


An international team of epidemiologists arrived here, Monday, to help fight the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemic.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare said the experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) will work with the government for five days from Tuesday until Saturday. They will give a news conference Saturday.

"The government and WHO agreed on the joint mission, considering global concerns over the epidemiologic pattern here, which is quite different from that in Saudi Arabia and other countries," a ministry official said.

"According to the International Health Regulation, the WHO can conduct on-site inspections with the government of a country to help stop the spread of a disease overseas, or other issues that may require global cooperation," he said. "The joint team will collect necessary information to fight the disease."

The joint mission will have 16 members — eight from the WHO delegation and eight from Korea. Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general for health security at the WHO, and Lee Jong-koo, director of Seoul National University's JW Lee Center for Global Medicine, will co-head the mission.

The foreign delegation is comprised of experts in epidemiology, virology, clinical management, infection prevention and control from WHO headquarters, its Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO), and experts from China and Hong Kong.

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They are: Li Ailan, director of WPRO's division of health security and emergencies; Kidong Park, team leader of the WPRO's country support unit; Abdullah Assiri, infection prevention and control director of the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health; David Hui, professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Maria Van Kerkove, technical consultant for the global capacities, alert and response cluster of the WHO; Malik Peilis, director of the WHO H5 Reference Laboratory at the University of Hong Kong; and Martin Cetron, director of global migration and quarantine division at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Besides Lee, the Korean members are five professors and two officials from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).

The team will visit the KCDC headquarters in Osong, North Chungcheong Province, and Pyeongtaek St. Mary's Hospital in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, where Korea's first MERS patient stayed and spread the virus.

At the hospital and other quarantine facilities, the members will gain information about how the virus spread.

WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said that the joint mission between WHO and Korean government will assess the latter's measures against MERS and discuss additional measures or strategic adjustments.

In an interview with Yonhap News Agency, she said that one of the team's missions is to find out why the disease has spread so rapidly in Korea, adding that one possible reason for the spread within hospitals may be Korean culture that family members attend patients.

Chan said that when a new disease appears and arrives in a country, medical experts there cannot deal with it properly at first as they do not understand the mechanism.

But she added that Korea has strong scientific knowledge and research ability, so she expects the country to control the situation soon if proper public hygiene measures are taken.


WHO 메르스합동평가단 내일부터 활동 시작

세계보건기구(WHO)에서 파견된 중동호흡기증후군(메르스) 합동 평가단이 8일 한국에 도착해 내일부터 보건복지부, 전문가들과 국내 메르스 전파 원인과 양상 등을 규명한다.

WHO 합동 조사단은 이날 오후 인천공항을 통해 입국했으며 9일부터 13일까지 충북 오송 질병관리본부에 사무실을 마련하고 활동할 예정이다.

합동 조사단은 국내외 전문가 16명으로 구성됐으며 이종구 서울대 의과대학 이종욱 글로벌 의학센터 소장과 케이지 후쿠다 WHO 사무차장이 공동단장을 맡는다.

합동 조사단은 9일 오전 문형표 보건복지부 장관을 만나는 것으로 활동을 시작으로 역학조사·감염관리 등 분야별 토론, 환자 발생·격리 병원 등을 방문한다.

아울러 질병관리본부와 협력해 메르스 바이러스 특성 분석도 진행한다.

조사단 활동이 끝나는 13일에는 합동 평가 결과를 발표하고 이를 언론에 공개할 예정이다.

보건복지부는 '국제보건규칙(International Health Regulation, IHR)에 따라 WHO는 국제적인 질병확산이나 잠재적으로 국제협력대응이 필요한 사안에 대해 당사국과 협력해 현장평가를 시행할 수 있다'고 밝혔다.  (연합뉴스)
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