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Public Health Weekly Report 2020; 13(20): 1407-1415

Published online May 14, 2020

© The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency

Investigation of fever and respiratory effected symptoms in Traveler Entering Korea over the past five years

Jung Kyung-Sook, Son Tae-Jong, Kim Gueum-Chan

Division of Quarantine Support, Center for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, KCDC

*교신저자 : kimgchan@korea.kr, 043-719-9200

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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.

Key words Quarantine, Symptomatic, Fever, Respiratory, Imported case of infection diseases

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Table 1.

Travelers identified with diarrhea, fever and/or respiratory symptoms who were quarantined (2015-2019).

Symptoms*Total20152016201720182019
n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)
Travelers entered Korea†209,761,093 (100.0%)33,484,474 (100.0%)39,523,941 (100.0%)41,585,659 (100.0%)46,456,631 (100.0%)48,710,388 (100.0%)
Total symptomatic611,316 (0.3%)63,424 (0.2%)97,067 (0.3%)154,554 (0.4%)162,709 (0.4%)133,544 (0.3%)
Respiratory415,906 (68.0%)48,156 (75.9%)73,625 (75.8%)105,744 (68.4%)105,338 (64.7%)83,043 (62.2%)
Fever51,900 (8.5%)5,938 (9.4%)7,628 (7.9%)9,200 (6.0%)15,832 (9.7%)13,284 (9.9%)
Gastrointestinal143,510 (23.5%)9,330 (14.7%)15,814 (16.3%)39,610 (25.6%)41,539 (25.5%)37,217 (27.9%)

* Symptoms: gastrointestinal symptoms (diarrhea, vomit, stomachache), fever, respiratory (runny nose/nasal stuffiness, sore throat, cough, dyspnea.

† Travelers entered Korea: crew and passenger from aircraft.

Table 2.

Status of diagnostic test of respiratory symptoms who were quarantined (2015-2019)

ClassificationTotal20152016201720182019
n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)
Diagnostic test579 (100.0%)153 (100.0%)155 (100.0%)67 (100.0%)131 (100.0%)73 (100.0%)
Positive cases203 (35.1%)21 (13.7%)44 (28.4%)31 (46.3%)71 (54.2%)36 (49.3%)
Test resultSeasonal Influenza*145 (71.4%)9 (42.9%)34 (77.3%)22 (70.9%)56 (78.9%)24 (66.7%)
Acute respiratory virus†58 (28.6%)12 (57.1%)10 (22.7%)9 (29.0%)15 (21.1%)12 (33.3%)

* Seasonal Influenza : A/H1N1pdm09, A/H3N2, B (Victoria & Yamagata)

† Acute respiratory virus : adenovirus, human bocavirus, parainfluenza virus, rhinovirus, coronavirus, respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus

Figure 1. Health declaration form

Figure 2. Status of monthly fever and respiratory symptoms (2015-2019)

References

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  1. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). COMMUNICABLE DISEASE THREATS REPORT. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC); 2020.4.17.
  2. 질병관리본부. 주간 해외감염병 발생동향. 2020;5(16).
  3. 질병관리본부. 감염병감시연보 2018.
  4. 최고은, 손태종, 김금찬. 2020년 상반기 검역감염병 오염지역 안내. 주간 건강과 질병. 2020;12(1):8-12.
  5. 질병관리본부. 해외감염병표준매뉴얼 2018.
  6. Who Health Organization. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report-93. 2020.4.22.
  7. 천병철. 해외여행 관련 질환의 역학과 여행의학의 감염병 관리. 대한의사협회지 2010;53(6):510-523.
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Epidemiology and Surveillance

Public Health Weekly Report 2020; 13(20): 1407-1415

Published online May 14, 2020

Copyright © The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.

Investigation of fever and respiratory effected symptoms in Traveler Entering Korea over the past five years

Jung Kyung-Sook, Son Tae-Jong, Kim Gueum-Chan

Division of Quarantine Support, Center for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response, KCDC

Correspondence to:*교신저자 : kimgchan@korea.kr, 043-719-9200

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Quarantine, Symptomatic, Fever, Respiratory, Imported case of infection diseases

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Table 1 . Travelers identified with diarrhea, fever and/or respiratory symptoms who were quarantined (2015-2019)..

Symptoms*Total20152016201720182019
n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)
Travelers entered Korea†209,761,093 (100.0%)33,484,474 (100.0%)39,523,941 (100.0%)41,585,659 (100.0%)46,456,631 (100.0%)48,710,388 (100.0%)
Total symptomatic611,316 (0.3%)63,424 (0.2%)97,067 (0.3%)154,554 (0.4%)162,709 (0.4%)133,544 (0.3%)
Respiratory415,906 (68.0%)48,156 (75.9%)73,625 (75.8%)105,744 (68.4%)105,338 (64.7%)83,043 (62.2%)
Fever51,900 (8.5%)5,938 (9.4%)7,628 (7.9%)9,200 (6.0%)15,832 (9.7%)13,284 (9.9%)
Gastrointestinal143,510 (23.5%)9,330 (14.7%)15,814 (16.3%)39,610 (25.6%)41,539 (25.5%)37,217 (27.9%)

* Symptoms: gastrointestinal symptoms (diarrhea, vomit, stomachache), fever, respiratory (runny nose/nasal stuffiness, sore throat, cough, dyspnea..

† Travelers entered Korea: crew and passenger from aircraft..

Table 2 . Status of diagnostic test of respiratory symptoms who were quarantined (2015-2019).

ClassificationTotal20152016201720182019
n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)
Diagnostic test579 (100.0%)153 (100.0%)155 (100.0%)67 (100.0%)131 (100.0%)73 (100.0%)
Positive cases203 (35.1%)21 (13.7%)44 (28.4%)31 (46.3%)71 (54.2%)36 (49.3%)
Test resultSeasonal Influenza*145 (71.4%)9 (42.9%)34 (77.3%)22 (70.9%)56 (78.9%)24 (66.7%)
Acute respiratory virus†58 (28.6%)12 (57.1%)10 (22.7%)9 (29.0%)15 (21.1%)12 (33.3%)

* Seasonal Influenza : A/H1N1pdm09, A/H3N2, B (Victoria & Yamagata).

† Acute respiratory virus : adenovirus, human bocavirus, parainfluenza virus, rhinovirus, coronavirus, respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus.

Figure 1. Health declaration form

Figure 2. Status of monthly fever and respiratory symptoms (2015-2019)

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Table 1 . Travelers identified with diarrhea, fever and/or respiratory symptoms who were quarantined (2015-2019)..

Symptoms*Total20152016201720182019
n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)
Travelers entered Korea†209,761,093 (100.0%)33,484,474 (100.0%)39,523,941 (100.0%)41,585,659 (100.0%)46,456,631 (100.0%)48,710,388 (100.0%)
Total symptomatic611,316 (0.3%)63,424 (0.2%)97,067 (0.3%)154,554 (0.4%)162,709 (0.4%)133,544 (0.3%)
Respiratory415,906 (68.0%)48,156 (75.9%)73,625 (75.8%)105,744 (68.4%)105,338 (64.7%)83,043 (62.2%)
Fever51,900 (8.5%)5,938 (9.4%)7,628 (7.9%)9,200 (6.0%)15,832 (9.7%)13,284 (9.9%)
Gastrointestinal143,510 (23.5%)9,330 (14.7%)15,814 (16.3%)39,610 (25.6%)41,539 (25.5%)37,217 (27.9%)

* Symptoms: gastrointestinal symptoms (diarrhea, vomit, stomachache), fever, respiratory (runny nose/nasal stuffiness, sore throat, cough, dyspnea..

† Travelers entered Korea: crew and passenger from aircraft..

Table 2 . Status of diagnostic test of respiratory symptoms who were quarantined (2015-2019).

ClassificationTotal20152016201720182019
n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)n (%)
Diagnostic test579 (100.0%)153 (100.0%)155 (100.0%)67 (100.0%)131 (100.0%)73 (100.0%)
Positive cases203 (35.1%)21 (13.7%)44 (28.4%)31 (46.3%)71 (54.2%)36 (49.3%)
Test resultSeasonal Influenza*145 (71.4%)9 (42.9%)34 (77.3%)22 (70.9%)56 (78.9%)24 (66.7%)
Acute respiratory virus†58 (28.6%)12 (57.1%)10 (22.7%)9 (29.0%)15 (21.1%)12 (33.3%)

* Seasonal Influenza : A/H1N1pdm09, A/H3N2, B (Victoria & Yamagata).

† Acute respiratory virus : adenovirus, human bocavirus, parainfluenza virus, rhinovirus, coronavirus, respiratory syncytial virus, human metapneumovirus.

References

  1. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). COMMUNICABLE DISEASE THREATS REPORT. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC); 2020.4.17.
  2. 질병관리본부. 주간 해외감염병 발생동향. 2020;5(16).
  3. 질병관리본부. 감염병감시연보 2018.
  4. 최고은, 손태종, 김금찬. 2020년 상반기 검역감염병 오염지역 안내. 주간 건강과 질병. 2020;12(1):8-12.
  5. 질병관리본부. 해외감염병표준매뉴얼 2018.
  6. Who Health Organization. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report-93. 2020.4.22.
  7. 천병철. 해외여행 관련 질환의 역학과 여행의학의 감염병 관리. 대한의사협회지 2010;53(6):510-523.
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