福建省是我国恙虫病的主要疫区，1951年首次报道平潭岛恙虫病流行’‘’以来，沿海岛屿陆续发现，流行也较严重。南日岛是福建沿海较大岛屿，1997年前未见恙虫病疫情报道。1997年6月，我们收治该岛驻军首例恙虫病病例”’，尔后病例逐渐增加。为查明南日岛恙虫病流行情况，我们 Fujian Province is the main epidemic area of ​​scrub typhus in our country. Since the first report of the epidemic of scrub typhus in Pingtan Island in 1951, the coastal islands have been discovered one after another, and the epidemic is also more serious. South Island is a larger island in Fujian coast, no scrub typhus was reported before 1997. In June 1997, we admitted the first case of tsutsugamushi disease stationed on the island and gradually increased the number of cases. In order to ascertain the prevalence of tsutsugamushi disease on the south island of Japan, we