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KMID : 1143420230160371275
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Public Health Weekly Report
2023 Volume.16 No. 37 p.1275 ~ p.1285
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Status of Infectious Diseases Reporting in 2022
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Ha Jin
Choi Moon-Sun
Yu Da-Eun
Park Noo-Ri
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Abstract
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On June 30, 2023, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency released the 2022 Annual Report on the Notified Infectious Diseases, which summarized the status of notifiable infectious diseases reported in 2022. According to the Infectious Disease Prevention and Management Act and the Notification of the Types of Infectious Diseases Designated by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, there are a total of 89 types of infectious diseases. In 2022, 40 out of 66 infectious diseases subject to total monitoring were reported, while the other 26 were not reported. The number of reported cases of mandatory surveillance infectious diseases in 2022 was 28,517,466, up 4,759.7% from 669,478 in 2021. This followed a sharp increase in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), of which there were 92,861 cases in 2022, down 6.6% from 99,406 in 2021. The reported cases of major infectious diseases that increased compared to the previous year were those of COVID-19, dengue fever, malaria, and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections, while those that decreased were hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, chickenpox, and tuberculosis.
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KEYWORD
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Disease notification, Public health, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
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