Word: bilharzia
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...Bilharzia, a parasite carried by water snails, has crept into Lake Nasser and the irrigation canals, infecting countless Egyptians. Salt washed out of previously unirrigated land has been carried downstream to increase the saline content of the eastern Mediterranean and threaten sea life...
...money was earmarked for facilities for research on the prevention of trachoma, bilharzia, and other debilitating diseases of the Middle East...
...diseases trachoma and bilharzia (schistosomiasis) are widespread in the Near East. Trachoma, a disease of the eye, infects 95 per cent of Saudi Arabian infants. Bilharzia, a parasitic disease, weakens those it attacks. In the Near East, it is almost as prevalent as malaria...
Some of the modern plagues of Eygpt: ¶Egypt: Amoebic dysentery, which afflicts every villager; bilharzia, an energy-sapping parasitic disease which infects 92%; intestinal worms, 64%; syphilis, 6.5%. ¶Typhoid fever, which seizes 2% each year; 6% of the population are typhoid carriers...
...PATHOLOGICAL COLLOQUIUM. "A Case of Bilharzia Disease" and "Pancreatic Hemorrhage from Aneurysia of the Splenic Artery." Dr. Ordway. "Neuro-physiological Effects of Anaphylactic Intoxication." Dr. Southard. Library of Pathological Department, Building D, Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, 4 P.M. Open to members of the University and to physicians...
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