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...spring approached and temperatures rose last week in southern Brazil, medical authorities cautiously expressed hope that the country's, and perhaps the hemisphere's, worst meningitis epidemic in history might be abating. But in the São Paulo area, where the disease has struck hardest, the death rate was still high. Estimates of the total number of cases there rose to 20,000 and deaths to as many as 3,000, but firm figures were unobtainable, partly because of censorship. In Porto Alegre, and in communities as far north as the Amazon, the disease was still...
...there have been increasingly widespread epidemics reaching a peak during the winter month of June. Normally concentrated among slum children, the disease this year has struck a large proportion of adults. It also appears to have crossed the class barrier, attacking the more affluent residents of São Paulo. Some doctors have suggested that the 1974 microbes may be mutants that are a menace to those handling the dead. So as to reduce the number of those exposed to possible infection, at least one hospital in São Paulo is placing victims' bodies in metal cases that...
...produces no vaccine of its own; so far it is making do with 235,000 doses of type A vaccine imported from France and awaiting arrival of 300,000 type C doses from the U.S. That would hardly be enough to stem the meningitis tide. In São Paulo, of some 2 million children, only 75,000 have been inoculated so far, and it seems certain that many more metal cases and coffins will yet be needed before Brazil's epidemic ends...
...CHERRIE JR. Sao Paulo, Brazil...
...Paulo, Brazil...