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...Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, 715 youngsters out of the city's 6,000 elementary-school children trooped back to classes last week with their heads covered by white skull caps. After twelve months of battle, the "Soo" is winning its fight against an epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp) among its youngsters (TIME, Nov. 3), but has still not been able to stamp out the stubborn disease...
...school kids in the Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie (pop. 32,000) were having their heads examined last week. And with good reason: the Soo had been hit by a raging epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp). Of 5,712 elementary schoolchildren, 1,300 had ringworm; so had 150 preschool moppets and 64 youths and adults. On streets and playgrounds, every bobbing head was topped with a white cotton skullcap, compulsory for schoolchildren, strongly recommended for all others. It was the severest ringworm epidemic ever recorded in Canada...
...Sweet potato stems and leaves, reported Department of Agriculture researchers at Beltsville, Md., also produced two antibiotics. One worked against Staphylococcus aureus, the germ that causes boils; the other against fungi that damage plants. In the skins and pulps of ripe bananas, there were two more: one worked against Tinea trychophytina, the fungus that causes athlete's foot, the other against the fungus that makes tomato plants wilt...
...Tinea is the technical name for ringworm. It is caused by varieties of a fungus called Trichophyton which gets into the skin. Various trichophyta affect the scalp or beard (causing patchy baldness), the torso, arms and legs (where the infection usually takes the form of a ring), the fingers, toes and the interdigital folds, the nails. The feet and hands are the most common sites of infection. Small blisters form and the skin erodes. W. F. Young Inc. of Springfield, Mass., makers of the proprietary germicide Absorbine Jr., taking a lesson from Listerine's Halitosis and Life Buoy Soap...
Another cause for the increase is that doctors are recognizing as tinea what they used to call eczema...