We already achieved the goal of the elimination of leprosy that was recommended by WHO. But the amazing change of our country¡¯s situation of the economical & social conditions makes the need of the migrant worker. Especially, the portion of
migrant
workers from India, Nepal, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh, & Vietnam, the countries of relatively high prevalence rate of Hansen¡¯s disease are increasing among them recently. It means the attention about the influx of Hansen¡¯s disease from
the
foreign countries. We perform the survey for Hansen¡¯s disease of the migrant worker. Total 603 workers were surveyed. We found only 4 persons, that had the high titer(above 500) of the result of PGL-1 ELISA, and only 3 persons, that had some
findings,
the suggestive finding of Hansen¡¯s disease, of cutaneous & neurological symptoms. In spite of the special study, we did not conform the diagnosis of Hansen¡¯s disease among them. During this survey, we did not find the conformed patients of
Hansen¡¯s
disease. But we think that we will be concerned about the influx of Hansen¡¯s disease from foreign countries, because of the recently significance change of the epidemiological situations of Hansen¡¯s disease in Korea.
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