China News Service, April 25 (Reporter Chen Jing) The 14th "National Malaria Day" is approaching. The reporter learned on the 25th that Shanghai has had no local cases of malaria infection for 11 consecutive years, and the state of malaria elimination has been maintained.
Malaria is a preventable and curable parasitic disease. The main symptoms of the disease are chills, fever, and sweating. Severe malaria can be life-threatening. Malaria can be transmitted through mosquito bites or blood transfusions.
Shanghai was once an endemic area of malaria. There were two epidemics in the 1950s and 1960s, with an incidence rate of over 3000/100,000.
Shanghai implemented malaria prevention and control measures at various levels, and reached the standard of basically eradicating malaria by 1986, and the annual incidence rate was controlled below 10/100,000.
The reporter learned from the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission that in 2010, Shanghai launched the "Malaria Elimination Action Plan (2010-2020)", adhered to the "government leadership, departmental cooperation, and social participation" working mechanism, and implemented various prevention and control measures to eliminate malaria. .
In 2016, Shanghai took the lead in accepting and passing the national malaria elimination assessment and reached the standards for malaria elimination.
Since then, Shanghai has focused on “timely detection and standardized and effective treatment of imported cases”, consolidated joint prevention and control, improved monitoring and early warning, strictly implemented “1-2-3+1” imported malaria prevention and control requirements, and diagnosed malaria cases. Complete the case review within 1 day, complete the epidemiological case investigation within 2 days, complete the epidemic spot investigation and implement the disposal measures within 3 days, complete the case transmission risk assessment within 1 month, stop the transmission in time, and effectively control the re-transmission of imported malaria.
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