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Collaborative Intervention of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome: Rapid Response Team

Authors
Lee, JacobKim, Woo Joo
Issue Date
6월-2016
Publisher
KOREAN SOC CHEMOTHERAPY
Keywords
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome; Coronavirus; Outbreak control
Citation
INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY, v.48, no.2, pp.71 - 74
Indexed
SCOPUS
KCI
Journal Title
INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume
48
Number
2
Start Page
71
End Page
74
URI
https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/88498
DOI
10.3947/ic.2016.48.2.71
ISSN
2093-2340
Abstract
On May 20th 2015, a 68 year old man was the first to be diagnosed with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) in Korea. He travelled to Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar for 16 days. On May 4th 2015, the patient entered Korea, with febrile sense and respiratory symptoms that appeared on May 11th. The MERS-CoV Outbreak became worse and several patients had to be admitted throughout various hospitals starting at the beginning of June. This situation led to a nationwide chaos. The Rapid Response Team (RRT) was organized after the Korean government's calling for specialists that were composed of 15 Infectious disease Doctors and 2 Infection Control professionals on the 8th of June 2015. The main purpose of the RRT were: 1) consultation to the Government controlling MERS-CoV outbreak. 2) Visit hospitals that were exposed to MERS-CoV infected patients, and to provide advice regarding infection control strategy for rehabilitating of the exposed hospitals. Since June 8th, the RRT visited more than 10 hospitals and an effective consultation was carried out. Most of the hospitals were recovering from the MERS outbreak since early July. Cooperation between the government and private sector experts was very effective. The efforts of government and private sector experts overcame the initial chaos situation. It could prevent further deterioration of the MERS outbreak.
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