With observations that the number of malaria patients in Korea will exceed 500 this year and may reach 700 by the end of the year, attention is drawn to the progress of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which aims to eradicate malaria again by 2030.
According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 15th, the number of malaria patients in Korea from January 1 this year to now is 509, exceeding 420 last year.
In the meantime, it is said that the number has never exceeded 700 since 826 in 2011 in Korea on an annual basis. In 2023, when living a normal life day by day feels like a big mission, I’m going to go around the 12th zodiac and wonder why this bad news overlaps.
Since the distancing against the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) has been lifted, outdoor activities have increased and all kinds of diseases are rapidly increasing, so paying more attention is the best preventive measure.
Malaria, a parasitic disease caused by parasites transmitted by mosquitoes, is derived from the Latin words malus (bad) and aria (air). When the cause of malaria was not known, it seems that it was thought that the disease was caused by bad air.
In the Chinese character culture, including Korea, it was called Hakjil. Mosquitoes infected with protozoa were so feared that they coined the expression ‘to remove the crane’. The meaning of quitting school refers to getting sick and getting better.
Malaria, which would be second in terms of contagiousness and fatality rate, as it is transmitted by mosquitoes, not bacteria or viruses, is an enemy of mankind that infects about 200 million people and causes more than 400,000 deaths worldwide. The reason why I feel that there is no big connection with Korea is that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the eradication of malaria in Korea in 1979.
However, since the recurrence of indigenous malaria in Gyeonggi-do in 1994, hundreds of people have been infected every year. However, most of the native malaria in Korea is P. vivax, which is easier to treat than tropical malaria and has a low mortality rate.
In the past, WHO predicted that South Korea would be able to eradicate malaria again around 2020, and the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention even made a plan to receive malaria eradication certification in 2024 in response to this, but it ended up being a waste and it is aiming for 2030 again.
7 years left now. I want mosquitoes to disappear along with malaria.
/Reporter Jeon Tae-min of Issue Edico/
2023-08-20 10:36:26
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