Abstract:

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.

Key words: China, Lymphatic filariasis, Eliminate, Achievement