Misattribution of Korea’s malaria elimination status in 1979
Roma Seol, Youngtaek Kim · 2025
Read Misattribution of Korea’s malaria elimination status in 1979 by Roma Seol, Youngtaek Kim (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12884038.txt.
Description
Roma Seol and Youngtaek Kim trace a long lived error about malaria in Korea in 2025. Many sources claim the World Health Organization declared South Korea malaria free in 1979. The authors hunted the claim through global health records and defense reports. What they found was a mix up between two countries with similar names in print.
The 1979 clearance in the records belonged to North Korea, not the South. Regional reports said the South had not cleared malaria as of the next year. Defense documents misread the record and spread the error into papers and websites. The study shows how one slip can echo for decades.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Roma Seol, Youngtaek Kim |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |