近年来接触不少传染病工作者,其中不少人,尤其是青年医师,不愿意从事传染病工作。这问题值得卫生部门领导同志重视。广大传染病工作者对传染病亦应有一个正确全面的认识。为此编者提出以下几点供广大读者商榷。一、正确认识传染病防治的现状。现今有一种倾向,认为目前传染病发病率已有所下降,因此行政领导和医院常把发展重点放在心脑血管疾病、肿瘤等方面,从而忽视了对传染病医院、病房和仪器设备等的建设及人才的培养和提高。然而医学的发展告诉我们,传染病仍然是医学中极为重要的一门学料。传统的传染病如病毒性肝炎、流行性出血热等感染率和发病率并未明显下降,有些传染病如伤寒、菌痢等因多种因素,发病率明显上升,且时有 In recent years, many infectious disease workers have been exposed. Many of them, especially young doctors, are reluctant to engage in infectious diseases. This issue deserves the attention of the leaders of the health sector. The majority of communicable disease workers should also have a correct and comprehensive understanding of infectious diseases. To this end the editor made the following points for the majority of readers to discuss. First, a correct understanding of the status of prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. At present, there is a tendency to think that the current incidence of infectious diseases has declined. Therefore, administrative leaders and hospitals often focus their development on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and oncological diseases, thereby neglecting the development of infectious diseases such as hospitals, wards and equipment Construction and personnel training and improvement. However, the development of medicine tells us that infectious diseases remain a very important material in medicine. Traditional infectious diseases such as viral hepatitis, epidemic hemorrhagic fever and other infection rates and incidence did not decline significantly, some infectious diseases such as typhoid, dysentery and other factors due to a variety of factors, the incidence increased significantly, and sometimes