麻风病、对人类精神生活威协很大,医务工作者对它斗争了几千年,现在全世界仍有患者1800多万人。据报导英国最近研究成功一种“抗麻风病疫苗”将于今年开始应用。过去比较普遍地认为麻风是皮肤接触性传染病。近来随着细菌学的发展和临床观察的深入,对麻风的传染方式和病变产生了不同的看法。 Leprosy, a great prestige of human spiritual life, medical workers fight it for thousands of years, and now there are still more than 18 million patients worldwide. It is reported that the recent successful British study on “anti-leprosy vaccine” will start to be applied this year. In the past, leprosy was generally considered as a contagious skin disease. Recently with the development of bacteriology and clinical observation of the depth of leprosy infection and lesions have different views.