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Ballerina2012
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 Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 7:40 am Post subject: Malaria? |
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| I read on another post where someone had contracted Malaria? Is that a concern in SK? |
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drydell
Joined: 01 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| Mostly not but I had a student who did military service.. Got severely sick from malaria 6 months later.. Was tracked back to that time...so there are some areas it's still a problem.. |
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lemak
Joined: 02 Jan 2011
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 10:45 am Post subject: |
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It's extremely rare. South Korea basically eradicated it, but the North hasn't - easy enough for mosquitoes to fly over the DMZ, lol.
Most cases occur up around the border with NK.
People may also catch it elsewhere...Thailand, Cambodia etc. and it lays dormant in the liver for up to a year or so later.
Not significant enough to worry about. Pay more attention to the TB and various forms of hepatitis spread by rank food hygiene and people coughing all over each other. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Malaria? |
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| Ballerina2012 wrote: |
| I read on another post where someone had contracted Malaria? Is that a concern in SK? |
10 years in Korea and I know thousands of teachers and I have never met someone who had contracted or knew of someone who contracted malaria.
It is an issue up around the Imjin river but not further south.
Hep A and B are endemic and you should have inoculations for them; if not before you arrive then soon after. They take up to 6 months for the series.
Japanese encephalitis is another one but it is easier and (MUCH) cheaper to get the vaccine here than abroad.
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