According to the 2017 Infectious Diseases Surveillance Yearbook of the Korea Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (KCDC), reports of sentinel surveillance of hepatitis C showed a decreasing trend after a peak of 6,407 cases in 2008, followed by an increase to 3,793 in 2013, and 6,283 in 2016.
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A Healthcare-Associated Outbreak of HCV Genotype 2a at a Clinic in Seoul.
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In Korea, data from the 2016 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) revealed that the rate of an anti-HCV positive result estimated for the period of 2012–2016 was 0.6% in males and 0.7% in females aged ≥ 10 years, and the rate showed an increasing trend with age [ 2 ].