Word: ambilhar
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...this assures a ready market for he new drug just announced by Switzerland's Ciba Ltd. Called Ambilhar, it is he first drug capable of curing schistosomiasis without making the patient sicker than he was to begin with...
...copper sulphate to kill the carrier snails has been ineffective. Some of the drugs now being used to treat the disease require painful injections. In 90% of cases, Ciba's Ambilhar pills cure the American and African forms within a week; tests on the Asian form are under way. Yet, as Ciba admits, even this potent drug cannot wipe out the disease because a cured patient who goes back into the rice fields may be reinfected within minutes...
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