1998
DOI: 10.3201/eid0402.980219
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Reemergence of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in the Republic of Korea

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“…Though parasitemic, these infected people will not seek treatment and will therefore contribute to expansion of malaria parasite foci in Korea. Given the extremely long incubation period of Korean P. vivax in some individuals, 1,12 infected people are more likely to travel throughout the peninsula before seeking treatment. Extensive geographic movement of the parasite has already occurred in American soldiers who carried the infection from Korea to the United States.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Though parasitemic, these infected people will not seek treatment and will therefore contribute to expansion of malaria parasite foci in Korea. Given the extremely long incubation period of Korean P. vivax in some individuals, 1,12 infected people are more likely to travel throughout the peninsula before seeking treatment. Extensive geographic movement of the parasite has already occurred in American soldiers who carried the infection from Korea to the United States.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, since re-emergence of a single case of P. vivax malaria in 1993, the number of malaria cases has increased exponentially in the northwestern part of the ROK (northern Kyunggi Province), causing more than 1,700 cases in 1997, and an estimated 4,000 cases in 1998. [1][2][3][4] Historically, Korean P. vivax malaria has an atypically long incubation period (lasting up to a year or longer) in a large proportion of patients but a typically mild clinical course 5 characteristics which appear to apply to the current epidemic. Serologic responses to malaria parasite infections in Korea have not been reported previously, although serology would be a logical approach to detect infection during the long incubation period.…”
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“…Malaria is a reemerging disease in several countries, and imported malaria is becoming a health problem in Western Europe; Ϸ6,500 cases are reported annually in Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom. P. falciparum infections account for the majority of cases (64%), but P. vivax infections are responsible for 23% (1)(2)(3)(4). Residual anophelinae populations capable of P. vivax transmission pose a permanent risk for the (re)emergence of P. vivax malaria where it currently does not exist, as recently observed in Central Italy (5).…”
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“…In addition, during the surveillance period, anthrax immunizations were required before assignments to certain [35,36]. Because US servicemembers received anthrax immunizations prior to Korea assignments, the strong association between anthrax vaccination and subsequent malaria was almost certainly due to confounding.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%