장태희 (서울대학교)

한빛사논문

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장태희Taehee Chang

서울대학교

Emerg. Infect. Dis, Jun 2024, 30 (6) | https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3006.231422 Trends in Nationally Notifiable Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals during COVID-19 Pandemic, South Korea

Taehee Chang, Sung-il Cho, Dae sung Yoo, Kyung-Duk Min^*

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (T. Chang, S. Cho);

Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul (S. Cho);

Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea (D. Yoo);

Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea (K.-D. Min)

*Address for correspondence: Kyung-Duk Min

Abstract

We investigated trends in notifiable infectious diseases in both humans and animals during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea and compared those data against expected trends had nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) not been implemented. We found that human respiratory infectious diseases other than COVID-19 decreased by an average of 54.7% after NPIs were introduced. On the basis of that trend, we estimated that annual medical expenses associated with respiratory infections other than COVID-19 also decreased by 3.8% in 2020 and 18.9% in 2021. However, human gastrointestinal infectious diseases and livestock diseases exhibited similar or even higher incidence rates after NPIs were instituted. Our investigation revealed that the preventive effect of NPIs varied among diseases and that NPIs might have had limited effectiveness in reducing the spread of certain types of infectious diseases. These findings suggest the need for future, novel public health interventions to compensate for such limitations.

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형식Research article
게재일2024년 06월 (BRIC 등록일 2024-06-13)
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