After the founding of the PRC, great efforts were made to prevent and treat schistosomiasis.
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A national-scale public-health campaign in 1950s–60s rural China inspired Mao's 1958 poem 七律·送瘟神 ('Farewell to the God of Plague') celebrating victory over 血吸虫病 in 余江县. The disease is contracted from parasitic flukes in stagnant water.
