由SARS流行回顾20世纪50年代北京传染病防治

2003年春节刚过，首都北京遭遇了一种新型传染病的袭击，这种传染病被世界卫生组织命名为严重急性呼吸道综合征，简称SARS。SARS给人们的生活带来了沉痛的教训，同时也说明近几十年来我们对传染病的防范失去了警惕。回顾20世纪50年代北京市防治传染病取得的成绩：消灭天花、鼠疫、霍乱三大烈性传染病，彻底防治斑疹伤寒、回归热、白喉，重点防治麻疹、痢疾、流行性乙型脑炎，这些成绩使我们深深体会到：统一部署、发动群众和开展爱国卫生运动在防治传染病中的重要作用。

Epidemic of SARS as reviewed from the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in 1950S in Beijing

After 2003 spring festival, a new kind of infectious disease named severe acute respiratory syndromes, calling SARS for short by WHO broke out in Beijing. Bringing us a bitter experience and it also shows that we pay no attention to the treatment and prevention of contagious diseases in recent years. A retrospect on the achievements of prevention and treatments on infectious diseases in 1950s in Beijing demonstrates that smallpox, plague and cholera were eradicated; typhus, relapsing fever and diphtheria were brought under control completely; measles, diarrhea and epidemic encephalitis B had been prevented effectively. All the above facts reveal that the vital importance of the coherent managements, and the carrying out of the patriotic hygienic campaign by mobilizing the mass are crucial to the prevention and treatment of infections.