血吸虫病,为我国广大地区的寄生虫病。据调查国内有一千万人罹患此病,而直接受到这病威胁者则有约一万万人之多。现当农村进入农业合作化,掀起建设社会主义高潮的时候,这个病的存在对於农民同志发挥潜力,增进生产来讲,是一个严重的障碍。因此人民政府与党中央提出限期消灭血吸虫病是完全正确而适时的。消灭血吸虫病的方针是:全面规划,加强领导,依靠互助合作,组织中西医力量,积极防治,逐步消灭。预防和治疗双方并重。因为不 Schistosomiasis, a parasite disease in vast areas of our country. According to the survey, there are 10 million people suffering from this disease, and there are about 10 million people who are directly threatened by the disease. When rural areas enter into agricultural cooperation and set off a socialist climax, the existence of the disease is a serious obstacle to the peasants’ comrades’ potential and the promotion of production. Therefore, it is completely correct and timely that the people’s government and the Party Central Committee propose to eliminate schistosomiasis within a time limit. The policy of eliminating schistosomiasis is: comprehensive planning, strengthening leadership, relying on mutual assistance and cooperation, organizing the forces of Chinese and Western medicine to actively prevent and control and gradually eliminate it. Both prevention and treatment are equally important. Because not