International Symposium on Epidemic Hemorrhagic Fever (Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome) Held in Wuhan, Hubei, China on October 31 - November 2, 1988.

摘要

To hold an International Symposium in HFRS was initially proposed by Dr. Chin-min Hsiang, Professor of Virology of Hubei Medical University and immediately supported by Dr. Jia-qi Yang, president of Hubei Medical University and Dr. David L. Huxsoll, Director of U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of infectious Diseases in 1985, the beginning year of a three-year contract between Hubei medical University and the USAMRIID on a collaboration program of HFRS treatment with ribavirin. This was with an idea of setting up a goal of 'must success' of the Sino-American cooperation study. Due to the painstaking efforts of scientists and officers of both sides, the three years plan was almost finished in two years with harvest of a definite conclusion that ribavirin is effective in the treatment of acute stage HFRS patients.