中国曾是世界上淋巴丝虫病（以下简称“丝虫病”）流行最严重的国家之一。中华人民共和国成立后,中国政府高度重视丝虫病的防治,将其列入重点疾病防治规划,系统和全面地组织开展了调查、防治和科研工作,至2006年实现了全国消除丝虫病的目标。笔者为我国消除丝虫病的亲历者和见证人之一,本文就实现消除丝虫病的几个重要时间节点作一记实性的历史回顾。

China used to be one of the countries with the most serious epidemic of lymphatic filariasis in the world. Since the founding of New China, the Chinese Government has attached great importance to lymphatic filariasis control and included it into key disease prevention and control plans. Measures have been systematically and comprehensively adopted to the investigations, prevention and treatment, vector control and scientific research on filariasis that resulted in the eventual elimination of lymphatic filariasis nationwide by 2006. The author is one of the researchers and participants involved in the control of lymphatic filariasis in China. This paper retrospectively reviewed the several important time points that turned the filariasis under effective control.