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retrospective study

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  • Alternative Title:
    Travel Med Infect Dis
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  • Description:
    Background:

    The experience of previous sizable outbreaks may affect travelers’ decisions to travel to an area with an ongoing outbreak.

    Methods:

    We estimated changes in monthly numbers of visitors to the Republic of Korea (ROK) in 2015 compared to projected values by selected areas. We tested whether areas’ experience of a previous SARS outbreak of ≥100 cases or distance to the ROK had a significant effect on travel to the ROK during the MERS outbreak using t-tests and regression models.

    Results:

    The percentage changes in visitors from areas with a previous SARS outbreak of ≥100 cases decreased more than the percentage changes in visitors from their counterparts in June (52.4% vs. 23.3%) and July (60.0% vs. 31.4%) during the 2015 MERS outbreak. The percentage changes in visitors from the close and intermediate categories decreased more than the far category. The results from regression models and sensitivity analyses demonstrated that areas with ≥100 SARS cases and closer proximity to the ROK had significantly larger percentage decreases in traveler volumes during the outbreak.

    Conclusions:

    During the 2015 MERS outbreak, areas with a previous sizable SARS outbreak and areas near the ROK showed greater decreases in percentage changes in visitors to the ROK.

  • Subjects:
  • Source:
    Travel Med Infect Dis. 30:54-66
  • Pubmed ID:
    31102656
  • Pubmed Central ID:
    PMC6688921
  • Document Type:
    Journal Article
  • Funding:
    CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
  • Place as Subject:
    Republic of Korea
  • Volume:
    30
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    urn:sha256:e3bfb6c1e2e4db8cb86528f7e180a60c340363048d4bf2427594411f5a751e95
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