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...only the single-minded and often heroic intervention of the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) that prevented Sudan's epidemic of kala-azar from turning into a modern-day version of the black death, which ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages. MSF, founded by French doctors in the early 1970s, not only was largely responsible for bringing the epidemic under control but in the process also developed new procedures for treating the disease under extremely harsh conditions...
About the time the epidemic was beginning to spread, Khartoum banned relief flights into the south, and most international organizations, including the U.N., stayed out. Medecins Sans Frontieres refused to go along. In the summer of 1988, with a team already in Khartoum, MSF clandestinely sent a second one into the south. The team soon began to hear reports of a strange new "killing disease," which its doctors in Khartoum believed to be kala-azar...
...dispatched by who in Geneva, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc) in Atlanta and other public health groups-had set up an effective isolation ward at the main hospital in Kikwit, where the first case had been identified. Belgium's Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) rushed in loads of gloves, gowns, masks and other essential equipment to restore hygiene to filthy clinics. But when the strike forces, aided by local medical students, fanned out through the countryside around Kikwit, trying to follow the path of the fever, it became clear that the danger...