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KMID : 0383919650020010041
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Report of National Institute of Health
1965 Volume.2 No. 1 p.41 ~ p.48
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THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY OF POLIOMYELITIS IN KOREA
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Abstract
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The study on 1,874 Poliomyelitis cases treated at general hospitals in Korea during 1962 through 1964 reveals the following facts:
1. Among those polimyelitis cases, 63.4% were male and 36.5% were female.
2. The children form eight(8) months to four(4) years old occupied 77.54% of the total number of cases reported. Particularly, it was noted that the infants of eight(8) months to 18 months old were the highest incidence groups.
3. Polimyelitis is an endemic disease in Korea. The highest seasonal distribution of the outbreak of the cases, however, were observed from May through october each year, thus occupying 56.19% of the total number of cases reported.
4. Case faatality rate were relatively (1.01%). All Bulbar paralysis cases, however, died.
5. Paralytic part of the poliomyelities were more frequently observed in legs than in arms more in left legs (32.9%) than in right legs (28.12%). A large number of cases (22.14%) were observed as having hit in both legs. Fourty-two cases (2.24%) had paralysis on both arms and legs. Seven (7) cases (0.37%) had Bulbar type paralysis.
6. The most cases treated at the hospitals were only during the initial period after onset. There were only a few cases which underwent a long period of physical treatment.
7. A number of cases (5.5%) were reported among the children who had been inoculated with either Salk vaccin three times or had taken Sabin vaccine.
8. Salk vaccine has been used in Korea for the last seven(7) years and Sabin vaccine being used from 1962.
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