Word: hollanders
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...could be handled with no hospitals in the area. "We were going to be dealing with thousands of patients at a time, and we didn't know if it would be possible to do this out in the open and under a tree," says Johan Hesselink, who headed MSF-Holland's southern Sudan operations during that period...
...sense of helplessness. "I remember someone saying, 'Don't worry. Jill is here,'" she says. "But I still couldn't do anything." In fact, she was trying to do just about everything. "She didn't just treat patients," says Marilyn McHarg, the current country manager for MSF-Holland in Nairobi. "She designed the protocols and the system for the treatment...
Once treated, a patient is likely to remain immune to the disease. But the price of stopping the epidemic, which amounted to more than $1 million a year poured in by MSF-Holland, has been high in human terms as well. Of 70 Nuer and Dinka nurses trained by Seaman and the other MSF doctors, more than 75% have come down with kala-azar themselves. Five lost children to the disease...
...when some colleagues insisted that she see patients only during normal working hours or risk being sent home on the next plane. An MSF bureaucrat who replaced Hesselink as MSF's country director briefly banished Seaman to languish in Nairobi, before the bureaucrat was herself recalled to Holland. McHarg, Seaman's current boss, appreciates her special talents but also sees the need to go beyond emergency medicine. "If we pull out of Sudan tomorrow," she says, "we'd like to know that we are leaving something that lasts...
While marine biologists like Klimley and Holland are trying to unravel the mysteries of sharks' behavior and their role in the marine food chain, immunologists and physiologists are attempting to understand the animals' biochemistry. The idea that sharks can actually be beneficial to human health was established decades ago: vitamin A came primarily from shark-liver oil until 1947, when it was first synthesized in the laboratory. The unctuous liquid is also, for reasons still unknown, highly effective in shrinking human hemorrhoids...