경기북부지역의 말라리아에 관한 역학적 연구

Epidemiological Study of Malaria Outbreak in the Northern-part of Kyonggi-do

Korea has been free of malaria since the mid-1970s. Since the first malaria case was reported in 1993, the incidence of indigenous malaria has increased yearly, In this study, we planned to understand of malaria outbreak in the northern part of kyonggido. The subjects were a civilians except korean soldiers in the northern part of Kyonggido and the number of civilian malaria cases was 254 in 1997, 677 in 1998, 772 in 1999. The collected rates of Anopheles sinenis in 11 county from May to October were 10.1% to 85.1% and the monthly collected rates at June was highest. The incidence of malaria antibody according to the county was 5.4% in Paju-shi Tanhyun-myun 4.9% in Kapyong-gun Ha-myun, 3.0% in Yonchon-gun Yonchon-eup. etc. At the result of relationship between civilian cases and No. of A. sinenis, envionmental factor were showed high association.