Relapsing Fever

Relapsing fever, once considered one of the forms of typhus, may have appeared in Korea during the sixteenth century, when epidemics occurred in China and Manchuria. In addition, the epidemic fe­ver that appeared in 1886 might well have been relapsing fever (Miki 1962). Reports from the 1940s indicated that this disease was very rare in Korea, although ticks that serve as vectors of relapsing fever are present.