Word: azar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though it is fatal in 90% to 95% of untreated cases, kala-azar can nearly always be cured with antimony compounds...
...Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital in Atlanta, report Dr. William J. Senter and two colleagues in the current American Journal of Medicine, Noles was found to have kala-azar, a disease unknown in the U.S. until just before the war. Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria, but the invading parasite is different: a protozoon named Leishmania donovani. Once diagnosed, the disease is easily treated with daily injections of ethylstibamine, an,antimony compound. Noles went home after six weeks, pronounced cured...
...Kala-azar is found in the Mediterranean basin, in India (where it got its name, meaning black disease), China and Brazil. Prewar cases in the U.S. were mostly Lascar seamen or visitors from the Orient. Then scores of U.S. servicemen caught the disease. Many cases may still be lurking in veterans' bloodstreams as "undiagnosed fever." U.S. doctors have been alerted against...
China needs at least 200,000 doctors, and has fewer than 12,000-one doctor for every 37,500 people (the U.S. has one for 1,200). Ravaged by tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, kala azar (a deadly parasitic disease), typhus, plague, venereal disease, China has a death rate estimated at three to four times that ofthe U.S. (In Shanghai, a sixth of the population have T.B.; an eighth,venereal diseases.) Among the nation's major postwar medical problems: 32,000,000 opium addicts...
...China, UNRRA doctors and sanitary engineers helped to contain cholera, bubonic plague, kala azar (black fever, borne by sand flies, which were attacked with...