South Korea in 2015

Empowerment of Medical Toxicology in South Korea

In a recent issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT), the importance of empowering medical toxicology in the Asia Pacific Region has been discussed. In the editorial by Dr. Afshari, it has been stated that national societies of medical toxicology are important infrastructure for the development of medical toxicology, and the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Toxicology ...

Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome in South Korea, 2013-2015

BACKGROUND Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging infectious disease that was recently identified in China, South Korea and Japan. The objective of the study was to evaluate the epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of SFTS in South Korea. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS SFTS is a reportable disease in South Korea. We included all SFTS cases reported to the Korea Ce...

Reemergence of Japanese Encephalitis in South Korea, 2010–2015

Nosocomial amplification of MERS-coronavirus in South Korea, 2015.

Background Nosocomial amplification resulted in nearly 200 cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) during the 2015 South Korean MERS-coronavirus outbreak. It remains unclear whether certain types of cases were more likely to cause secondary infections than others, and if so, why. Methods Publicly available demographic and transmission network data for all cases were collected from th...

Trends in Infectious Disease Mortality, South Korea, 1983–2015

We used national statistics from 1983-2015 to evaluate trends in mortality caused by infectious diseases in South Korea. Age-standardized mortality from infectious disease decreased from 43.5/100,000 population in 1983 to 16.5/100,000 in 1996, and then increased to 44.6/100,000 in 2015. Tuberculosis was the most common cause of death in 1983 and respiratory tract infections in 2015. We observed...