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.
