What is the reality of the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda that has claimed to have 'eradicated schistosomiasis'?
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' Schistosomiasis ' is a disease that erodes human internal organs for a long period of time. When infected, it causes acute symptoms such as dermatitis, high fever, and digestive symptoms, and then develops jaundice and ascites due to liver cirrhosis and dies. The Chinese Communist Party has claimed to have 'eradicated' schistosomiasis, but by 2020 it has set a goal of 'controlling, not eradicating.'
Mao's China falsely claimed it had eradicated schistosomiasis – and it's still celebrating that'success' in propaganda today
https://theconversation.com/maos-china-falsely-claimed-it-had-eradicated-schistosomiasis-and-its-still-celebrating-that-success-in-propaganda-today-144464
According to the WHO, schistosomiasis is one of the neglected tropical diseases that affects more than 200 million people in 77 countries around the world. In Japan as well, it has been epidemic in the lower part of the Kofu basin in Yamanashi prefecture, and it has taken more than 100 years from investigation of the cause to eradication. The history of schistosomiasis in Japan is summarized in detail on Wikipedia, and the article has been selected as an ' excellent article ' on the Japanese version of Wikipedia.
Schistosoma japonicum (Schistosoma japonicum) --Wikipedia
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Local disease_ (Schistosoma japonicum)
The Chinese government has long said that it has 'eradicated' such schistosomiasis. The Chinese government has treated the eradication of schistosomiasis as 'a good example of the eradication of the disease by the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party,' and said that the number of new infections of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in Wuhan City has become zero. On April 2, 2020, a week after the official announcement, the China Central Television, a national broadcasting station, is re-broadcasting a documentary program to eradicate schistosomiasis.
However, 'eradicating schistosomiasis' is just propaganda, and Xun Zhou, who studies history at the University of Essex, argues that it has never been achieved. China's schistosomiasis eradication campaign began in 1955, and in 1958 Mao Tse-tung, the supreme leader of the Chinese Communist Party at the time, published the poem 'Farewell to the God of Plague' and lived there. Announced that the eradication of schistosomiasis is imminent. Within the same year, 167 counties and local governments declared that they had eradicated schistosomiasis, starting with Yujiang District , Jiangxi Province, where the epidemic was once remarkable.
The campaign involved extensive landfills and irrigation to kill snails, which are intermediate hosts for schistosomiasis, a vector of schistosomiasis. However, this landfill and irrigation not only cost a lot of money, but also caused flooding and soil degradation.
Due to these problems, the project of killing snails by landfill and irrigation has failed. As an alternative, pesticides have come to be used. However, according to Zhou, the pesticide has caused further damage to the ecosystem. The Chinese government has sent immigrants and livestock to the area to support agricultural production that has been hit by a series of projects, further increasing the number of people infected with schistosomiasis.
A former Chinese Ministry of Health executive involved in these projects said, 'I just made up the numbers. Senior officials knew it from the beginning. I wouldn't get into trouble or get fired. As such, senior officials demanded that we forge numbers, which is an open secret, 'he confessed to Zhou. According to a survey by Mr. Zhou, there was also a protest that 'upper leaders are only interested in production, not human life.'
In recent years, the Chinese government has released (PDF file) data that 'Schistosomiasis has been eradicated but has recurred,' reporting 54,454 domestically infected individuals in 2016. In 2017, the National Health Commission announced a new goal of 'controlling schistosomiasis by 2020,' switching the goal to control rather than eradication.
Zhou said of the series of propaganda, 'Being part of the'world's first country to eradicate schistosomiasis' makes people proud. In the fight against COVID-19, schistosomiasis By touting the eradication, the Chinese government continues to create the false sense of security and cohesion needed to stay in power. '
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