%0 Journal Article
%T Yoshitaka Komiya¡¯s visits to China and schistosomiasis investigation
%A Ka-wai Fan
%J Journal of Medical Biography
%@ 1758-1087
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0967772016672205
%X This article is about a Japanese parasitologist, Yoshitaka Komiya (1900¨C1976), who was invited to China for a schistosomiasis investigation in 1956. In 1955, Chairman Mao initiated a national campaign to eliminate schistosomiasis, which at that time was still common in southern China, and for this purpose, the People¡¯s Republic of China invited Yoshitaka Komiya to China. He published a report based on his observations during this visit. This article aims to explore the meaning of Komiya¡¯s visit to the People¡¯s Republic of China and his observations about the anti-schistosomiasis campaign
%K China
%K schistosomiasis
%K snail
%K Yoshitaka Komiya
%K Zhou Enlai
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0967772016672205