第7届破伤风国际讨论会于1984年9月10日～15日在意大利Copanello召开。破伤风的发病率每年已达150万例,死亡率50～85％。流行病学 Galazka等强调应重视新生儿破伤风,它已成为发展中国家危及健康的一个十分严重的问题。在过去5年中,20个发展中国家的调查示新生儿破伤风死亡率为5‰以下～60‰以上,占全部新生儿死亡数的23～72％,即每年夺去50万～100万新生儿的生命。破伤风新生儿中90％子出生后2周内死亡。其死亡数在出生后第3～4天开始上升,至第7～8天达高峰,以后 The 7th International Symposium on Tetanus was held in Copanello, Italy from September 10 to September 15, 1984. The incidence of tetanus has reached 1.5 million cases each year, the mortality rate of 50 to 85%. Epidemiology Galazka et al emphasize that attention should be paid to neonatal tetanus, which has become a very serious problem endangering the health of developing countries. In the past five years, a survey conducted by 20 developing countries showed that the neonatal tetanus mortality rate was below 5 ‰ and above 60 ‰, accounting for 23-72% of all neonatal deaths, that is, 500,000 to 1 million Neonatal life. Ninety percent of tetanus newborns die within two weeks of birth. The number of death in the first 3 to 4 days after birth began to rise to the first 7 to 8 days after the peak, after