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...moment when a nurse "put her hand under my skirt. She was checking for I don't know what, but she did it to everyone." Then a doctor dipped a buttonhook into an antiseptic solution and used it to flip back the eyelid. The reason: to check for trachoma, a blinding disease that would leave the immigrant an unwanted public charge. Trachoma was the most common medical reason for sending immigrants back to their native countries. (In fact, out of 12 million or so people who came to Ellis, most during the peak years of 1900-24, only...
...Trachoma, prevalent in the Middle East, has been linked to a variety of housefly that needs salinated water during its breeding cycle, and gets it from the human eye. Says Wilson: "It can dive-bomb the eye and be in and out before you can blink." The disease-causing microorganism is deposited during the attacks. Blindness can be prevented by applying antibiotics around the eye. The cost: only 50? per patient per year...
...majority of cases of NGU, no gonococcus can be found-hence the name nongonococcal urethritis. Though the cause of NGU cannot always be determined, researchers have in recent years identified a culprit in about half the cases: a tiny bacterium called Chlamydia trachomatis, the same microbe that causes trachoma, an eye disease...
Despite its progress, North Viet Nam has not become a medical Utopia. Parasitic and infectious diseases, for instance, remain major problems. However, the visitors were told that some ailments have been brought under control. Cholera, trachoma, venereal disease and leprosy have become relatively rare. Polio, which still occurs in South Viet Nam, has been all but eliminated in the North. Even more impressive has been the decline in infant mortality. The infant death rate now stands at 26 per 1,000 births, a figure that seems high by Western standards but represents tremendous progress for the North Vietnamese. When...
...people. The xenophobic Said permitted few foreigners in and fewer Omanis out, but an estimated 200,000 subjects managed to flee during the past ten years. Cannons sounded curfew after sundown. With only three schools in the entire sultanate, the population was more than 90% illiterate. Malnutrition, malaria, tuberculosis, trachoma and leprosy were endemic, but there was only one hospital, staffed by American missionaries. Terrified of assassination, the Sultan abandoned his capital of Muscat and barricaded himself farther down the coast in a crumbling palace in the town of Salala. There he stacked machine guns in every room and ventured...