流行性脑脊髓膜炎与军队有密切的关系,本病在部队中的以病率特别高,据美国军队的统计,其以病率可为平民的40倍,而在战争时期更为多见。早在拿破伦时代,在其多次的欧洲战争中,即曾有关于本病流行的记载。在第一次世界大战时,流行性脑脊髓膜炎曾在参战各国的军队中流行。战后本病在全世界范围内的发病率均趋下降,在以后的20年间,大部份时间的发病均较平稳。至第二次世界大战时,本病在各国军队中的发病率又趋升高,曾发生程度不同的流行。在我国军队中亦时有病例发生,故必须加以重视,分析其所以易于在军队中流行的原因,掌握其 Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis is closely related to the military. The disease is particularly prevalent in the armed forces. According to the statistics of the U.S. Army, the disease rate is 40 times more common among civilians and more common during the war . As early as the Napoleonic era, in its many European wars, there was a record of the epidemic. During World War I, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis had prevailed in the armies participating in the war. Post-war morbidity in the world are on the decline, in the next 20 years, the incidence of most of the time are relatively stable. By the time of the Second World War, the incidence of this disease in the armed forces of various countries was also on the rise, and epidemics of different degrees had taken place. There are also occasional cases in our army, so we must pay attention to it and analyze the reason why it is easy to popularize in the army.