卫生部近日公布了2003年上半年全国重点传染病疫情。出乎人们意料,位居重点传染病死亡数和病死率榜首的,并不是上半年曾令人们同仇敌忾的传染性非典型肺炎,而是—个古老的疾病:狂犬病。相应的数字支持这个统计,今年1～6月,狂犬病在去年高居甲、乙类传染病发病数和病死率首位的 The Ministry of Health recently announced the epidemic of key infectious diseases in the country in the first half of 2003. Surprisingly, the top of the list of major infectious disease deaths and fatalities is not the first of its kind in the history of infectious diseases caused by SARS but an ancient disease: rabies. Corresponding figures support this statistics. From January to June this year, rabies was the highest in the number of cases of type A and B infectious diseases and the first case fatality rate in the first half of this year