世界卫生组织在新的热带病训练研究特别计划中列为首要防治的寄生虫疾病有五种,即疟疾、血吸虫病、丝虫病、锥虫病和黑热病。而这五种寄生虫病中的主要者,从其感染人数,发病率、病死率和对社会经济的影响来说,无疑地就是疟疾。根据世界卫生组织的统计,世界上仍有约3.4亿人住在疟疾区,由于缺乏有组织的防治或控制而受其害。单在非洲,此病全面流行,每年受害致死的婴儿达百万人,而到医疗门诊 There are five parasitic diseases that WHO has listed as the top priority in the new special program of training for tropical diseases training: malaria, schistosomiasis, filariasis, trypanosomiasis and kala-azar. The major ones of the five parasitic diseases are, of course, malaria, in terms of their number of infections, their morbidity, their mortality and their socio-economic impact. According to the World Health Organization, there are still some 340 million people in the world who live in malaria and are harmed by the lack of organized control or control. In Africa alone, the disease is prevalent, with up to a million babies killed each year and arriving at medical clinics