今天,麻风病、血吸虫病、钩虫病这些热带病,对于年轻一代而言,只不过是课本上的几个名词,而在上个世纪初,这些疾病无异于死神的代名词。这些热带病曾是几千年人类医学史中无法破解,甚至无法有效控制的医学难题,直至上世纪初期,我国的热带病研究工作还几近空白。但此后的短短几十年时 Today, tropical diseases such as leprosy, schistosomiasis and hookworm are just a few of the terms for the younger generation, which were synonymous with death in the early part of the last century. These tropical diseases were the medical problems that can not be solved or even effectively controlled in the history of human medicine for thousands of years. Until the early of the last century, the study of tropical diseases in China was almost empty. But after just a few decades