Word: azar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next to typhus, Iran's biggest menace is leishmania, a mysteriously infectious disease (causing extreme enlargement of spleen and liver, and grey pigmentation of the skin) which kills thousands of natives (who call it kala azar or "black disease"). Leishmania in another form leaves thousands of survivors scarred by disfiguring...
...Said Dr. Snapper: "The parasitic disease which places its mark all over internal medicine in North China is kala-azar....It has to be considered in nearly every patient." This hideous malady, caused by tiny protozoa (Leishmania), produces an enormous spleen, anemia, and ulcers around the mouth, robs the body of its white blood cells, kills 95% of its victims who are not treated. Antimony is a specific for the disease, but of course few of its victims ever see a doctor until the disease is far advanced. Kala-azar is primarily an affliction of dogs, is passed to human...