Word: donohugh
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...charge came from a physician with an unusual background. Los Angeles-born Donald L. Donohugh was 17 when Pearl Harbor interrupted his premedical studies at U.C.L.A. He enlisted, then got an appointment to the Naval Academy. Graduating in 1946, Donohugh served six years (through the Korean war) before he could get to medical school (California, '56). After interning in San Diego and a residency in Monterey, he signed up for a two-year stint as a civilian medical officer in Samoa, took his wife and children to Pago Pago. There, last month, convinced that his alarm signals about leprosy...
Drugs Delayed. Asserted Dr. Donohugh: the spread of leprosy in American Samoa has assumed "ominous proportions in recent years.'' One reason, he suggested, is that the admittedly low infectiousness of leprosy in well-doctored communities is breeding a false sense of security about places like Samoa, where dress, climate. and social and personal habits speed its spread. The disease did not reach the U.S. islands until 1918: in 1930 there were only three cases; by 1950 there were 42, and now he claims to have traced 212. Dr. Donohugh painted an alarming picture of what might happen...
...Donohugh's main complaint: inaction, resulting from lack of interest and shortage of funds. The first of the modern, effective antileprosy drugs did not reach Samoa until 1951, eight years late. Today, this drug (DDS, for diaminodiphenyl-sulfone) is still the only one available there because it is the cheapest, though Dr. Donohugh believes later drugs would be more effective. And the tumbledown barracks building under a banyan tree. used as a leprosarium, is in such disrepair that Dr. Donohugh suggested the only thing to do was to burn it down...
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