Propaganda lauds Mao's China's false claims of eradicating schistosomiasis

China's anti-schistosomiasis campaign began in 1955 when Mao mounted a "socialist high tide" push to bring the socialist revolution to the Chinese countryside

In early April, with much of the world under lockdown, China was already celebrating its purported victory in keeping the new coronavirus under control. In an effort to boost public morale, on April 2 the state-run Chinese Central Television, which acts as an ideological mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), re-aired a documentary about a Mao-era campaign against the disease schistosomiasis. The film, which was made in 2018, claimed the CCP’s leadership had successively eradicated the disease in China in the late 1950s, saving millions of lives.

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