• Military medicine · May 2024

    Historical Article

    Schistosomiasis: The Disease That Saved Taiwan.

    • Matthew D Turner and Jason Sapp.
    • U.S. Army, Transitional Year Program, Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA 98431, USA.
    • Mil Med. 2024 May 18; 189 (5-6): 128129128-129.

    AbstractFrom 1949 to 1950, an acute epidemic of schistosomiasis struck several elite units of the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War that were preparing for an amphibious invasion of Taiwan. The crucial delay brought by the sudden outbreak of the disease may have cost communist forces control of the strategic island, changing the geopolitical calculus of the Pacific in the decades since.Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States 2023. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.

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