Infectious Disease Control And Prevention Act.

The purpose of this Act is to contribute to improving and maintaining citizens' health by preventing the occurrence and epidemic of infectious diseases hazardous to citizens' health, and prescribing necessary matters for the prevention and control thereof.
The term zoonosis mentioned in the Act means any infectious disease publicly notified by the Commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, among those spread by pathogens transmittable from animals to humans and vice-versa. Article 14 provides for rules to be satified on the the notification of zoonoses. Upon receipt of a report referred to in Article 11 (1) 2 of the Act on the Prevention of Contagious Animal Diseases, the head of the national animal disease control agency, the head of a Si/Gun/Gu having jurisdiction over the place where animals subject to reporting are located, or the head of a City/Do animal disease control agency shall immediately notify the Commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency of contagious animal diseases prescribed in the same Act, if they fall under any of the following: 1. Anthracnose; 2. Highly pathogenic avian influenza; 3. Rabies; 4. Other zoonoses prescribed by Presidential Decree.
Article 21 provides for reporting on extraction, distribution and transfer, or transfer of high-risk pathogens. The preventive measures against infectious diseases include: Prohibiting capturing animals which are intermediate hosts transmitting infectious diseases, or prohibiting eating such animals in the raw state; Issuing an order to exterminate rodents, vermin, or other animals transmitting infectious diseases or to install facilities for exterminating such; etc. (art.49).