Word: hetrazan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Broken Cycle. Dr. Kessel's most potent weapon was the drug diethylcarbamazine (Lederle Laboratories' Hetrazan). It does not kill all the adult worms or directly cure a full-blown case of filariasis, but it prevents reinfection by killing the wormlets in their early, vulnerable phase...
...Tahitians, all but a handful have taken Hetrazan. In five years, the incidence of filariasis has dropped from 40% to less than 5%, and elephantiasis has all but disappeared. Dr. Kessel expects the same results in Samoa, where filariasis in some areas is up nearly 100% since...
...Caribbean islands), 189,000,000 people have filariasis, which causes swelling in the lymphoid tissues. About 20,000,000 people have oncocerciasis, which causes blindness when the worms get into the eyes. A new antimony compound called Neostibosan has proved effective against filariasis, and another new drug, hetrazan, against oncocerciasis...
| 1 |