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...single patient. The patients had been excreting thousands of eggs a day; after the operation, ten excreted no more eggs, suggesting that all the mated flukes had been filtered out of their systems, and seven others showed great improvement. Though it was developed specifically for the fluke Schistosoma mansoni, common in South America and Africa, Drs. Kean and Goldsmith believe the technique can be adapted to remove both the Asiatic form, which causes an even more severe disease, and a variety that is common in the Near East and exposes Africans to double jeopardy...
...north, reported the University of Illinois' Drs. Carroll L. Birch and Basil P. Anast. Mass migrations from south to north have carried with them hookworm, whipworm and ascarides. Immigrants in the thousands from the West Indies have brought the parasites of schistosomiasis and filariasis. Hookworm, whipworm and Schistosoma mansoni began to appear in northern cities only in 1950; years ahead of them were the amoeba (a cause of chronic dysentery) and pinworm. Estimated schistosomiasis cases in New York City, 70,000; in Chicago, 2,200. ¶When a small boy swallowed a nail which lodged in the jejunum (second...
...that the U.S. Army, Navy, Public Health Service and several universities were now studying schistosomiasis. Proving a theory long held by Dr. Barlow, two P.H.S. doctors had discovered (in the laboratory) that there is, indeed, at least one U.S. snail (Louisiana variety) which can harbor the Egyptian fluke, schistosoma mansoni...
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