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KMID : 1143420200130201407
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Public Health Weekly Report
2020 Volume.13 No. 20 p.1407 ~ p.1415
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Investigation of fever and respiratory effected symptoms in Traveler Entering Korea over the past five years
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Jung Kyung-Sook
Son Tae-Jong
Kim Gueum-Chan
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Abstract
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As infectious diseases continue to occur around the world, the public’s interest and concern about the inflow and spread of overseas infectious diseases into Korea has increased. This manuscript introduced the quarantine system in Korea and
investigated the status of the symptomatic traveler identified during the entry stage over the past five years (2015-2019),
and analyzed the occurrence status of the cases of fever and respiratory symptoms on a monthly basis. Among the total
visitors who have entered in Korea over the past five years, the average ratio of the suspected patients is about 0.3 percent. Among these cases, respiratory symptoms were the highest with 68%, followed by diarrhea with 23.5% and fever with 8.5%. According to statistics from 2017 to 2019, fever and respiratory symptoms occurred the most in January, February and December, but decreased since January 2015 and most frequently in August in 2016. Therefore, in order to prevent the inflow and spread of infectious diseases from overseas countries, the outbreak trend of foreign infectious diseases is continuously monitored, and continuous quarantine management is necessary to the people by providing information on the prevention of infectious diseases by region and time of outbreak to those who leave the country so that quarantine survey can be conducted for returnees.
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KEYWORD
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Quarantine, Symptomatic, Fever, Respiratory, Imported case of infection diseases
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