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Volume 22, Number 10—October 2016
Letter

Reemergence of Japanese Encephalitis in South Korea, 2010–2015

Jun-Sang Sunwoo1, Keun-Hwa Jung, Soon-Tae Lee, Sang Kun Lee, and Kon ChuComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea

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Reemergence of Japanese encephalitis in South Korea. A) Number of cases and deaths caused by Japanese encephalitis by year, 1990–2015. Number of deaths for 2015 is not shown because final data was unavailable. B) Number of cases and incidence of Japanese encephalitis by age group, 2010–2015. Population data for the denominator originated from the future population projection data of the Korea Statistical Information Service through 1992 and from the mid-year population data from the resident reg

Figure. Reemergence of Japanese encephalitis in South Korea. A) Number of cases and deaths caused by Japanese encephalitis by year, 1990–2015. Number of deaths for 2015 is not shown because final data were unavailable. B) Number of cases and incidence of Japanese encephalitis by age group, 2010–2015. Population data for the denominator originated from the future population projection data of the Korea Statistical Information Service through 1992 and from the mid-year population data from the resident registration system as of 1993. All disease data shown in the figure were provided by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Infectious Disease Statistics System (http://is.cdc.go.kr/dstat/index.jsp).

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1Current affiliation: Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.

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