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Review of Measles in Korea: Quarantine and Elimination
Strong policies were established to maintain vaccination rate at ≥95% to expedite the eradication and elimination of measles outbreaks; nationwide survey of measles immunity to determine the susceptibility and the mandatory submission of second measles vaccination records when entering primary schoo...
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The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7113451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32239813 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2020.52.1.113 |
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author | Kang, Jin Han |
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description | Strong policies were established to maintain vaccination rate at ≥95% to expedite the eradication and elimination of measles outbreaks; nationwide survey of measles immunity to determine the susceptibility and the mandatory submission of second measles vaccination records when entering primary school. The measles control policies were also implemented to help achieve the goal of eliminating measles after the catch-up vaccination and they can be summarized as strategies for classifying measles patients based on their clinical symptoms while anticipating that weaker symptoms than those in typical cases would be seen; improving the operation of laboratories to world-class level for diagnosis of measles and identification of epidemiological circumstances for strengthen the detection of patients suspected of having measles; and immediate response through a rapid reporting system. With these efforts, Korea became the country to make the declaration of measles elimination by complying with all standards presented by the World Health Organization in 2006, re-verified in 2014. However, sporadic outbreaks of measles have repeatedly occurred even after the declaration of measles elimination. This indicates the need for continued control of imported cases and possible re-outbreaks. Also, it will be necessary to find and implement measures to continuously maintain the policy. |
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spelling | pubmed-71134512020-04-07 Review of Measles in Korea: Quarantine and Elimination Kang, Jin Han Infect Chemother Special Article Strong policies were established to maintain vaccination rate at ≥95% to expedite the eradication and elimination of measles outbreaks; nationwide survey of measles immunity to determine the susceptibility and the mandatory submission of second measles vaccination records when entering primary school. The measles control policies were also implemented to help achieve the goal of eliminating measles after the catch-up vaccination and they can be summarized as strategies for classifying measles patients based on their clinical symptoms while anticipating that weaker symptoms than those in typical cases would be seen; improving the operation of laboratories to world-class level for diagnosis of measles and identification of epidemiological circumstances for strengthen the detection of patients suspected of having measles; and immediate response through a rapid reporting system. With these efforts, Korea became the country to make the declaration of measles elimination by complying with all standards presented by the World Health Organization in 2006, re-verified in 2014. However, sporadic outbreaks of measles have repeatedly occurred even after the declaration of measles elimination. This indicates the need for continued control of imported cases and possible re-outbreaks. Also, it will be necessary to find and implement measures to continuously maintain the policy. The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2020-03 2020-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7113451/ /pubmed/32239813 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2020.52.1.113 Text en Copyright © 2020 by The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases, Korean Society for Antimicrobial Therapy, and The Korean Society for AIDS https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Special Article Kang, Jin Han Review of Measles in Korea: Quarantine and Elimination |
title | Review of Measles in Korea: Quarantine and Elimination |
title_full | Review of Measles in Korea: Quarantine and Elimination |
title_fullStr | Review of Measles in Korea: Quarantine and Elimination |
title_full_unstemmed | Review of Measles in Korea: Quarantine and Elimination |
title_short | Review of Measles in Korea: Quarantine and Elimination |
title_sort | review of measles in korea: quarantine and elimination |
topic | Special Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7113451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32239813 http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2020.52.1.113 |
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