钩虫病和丝虫病是旧社会遗留下来的两种寄生虫病。解放以来,在党的领导下,随着生产的飞跃发展和人民生活的迅速提高,我们不断地组织了医药力量,有計划有步骤地对钩虫病、丝虫病开展了斗争。这种斗争到1958年以后,在党的社会主义建设总路线的光辉照耀下,在工农业生产大跃进和人民公社化的有利形势的推动下,更形成了群众运动的高潮。在斗争中,我们贯彻了“积极防治、逐块消灭”的方针,采取了综合措施,充分发动群众,大搞群众运动,因而取得了巨大的成绩。在钩虫病方面,各地普遍进行了疫情调查,并结合生 Hookworms and filariasis are two parasitic diseases left over from the old society. Since the liberation, under the leadership of the party, with the rapid development of production and the rapid improvement of people’s lives, we have continuously organized the medical forces and systematically and step-by-step conducted the struggle against hookworm and filariasis. After 1958, this struggle led to the climax of the mass movement under the brilliant shining of the party’s general line of socialist construction and under the favorable situation of the great leap forward in industrial and agricultural production and the people’s communes. In the course of the struggle, we implemented the principle of “active prevention and elimination and eliminated one by one.” We have achieved great successes by adopting comprehensive measures, fully mobilizing the masses and vigorously pursuing the mass movement. In the hookworm disease, widespread epidemic investigation around, and combined with students