疟疾是一种严重危害劳动人民健康的疾病,尤以脑型疟最为凶险,国外有关资料报告,其病死率达50%以上。早年国内有关资料报告病死率也达25.8%。1971～1972年国内报道,病死率下降到12.9%。近几年来由于青蒿素的发现以及研究,证明青蒿素对各型疟疾均有治疗作用,并有高效、速效、低毒等优点。1975年7月以来,我科在广州中医学院疟疾防治研究小组的指导下,应用青蒿素制剂治 Malaria is a serious disease that endangers the health of working people, especially the most dangerous type of malaria. Data on foreign countries report that the case fatality rate is over 50%. In the early years of the domestic data reported mortality rate reached 25.8%. Domestic reports from 1971 to 1972, the case fatality rate dropped to 12.9%. In recent years, the discovery of artemisinin and research have proved that artemisinin has a therapeutic effect on various types of malaria and has the advantages of high efficiency, quick response, low toxicity and the like. Since July 1975, our department under the guidance of the Guangzhou Institute of Materia Medica malaria research team, the application of artemisinin preparation