Word: trachoma
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...money was earmarked for facilities for research on the prevention of trachoma, bilharzia, and other debilitating diseases of the Middle East...
...diseases trachoma and bilharzia (schistosomiasis) are widespread in the Near East. Trachoma, a disease of the eye, infects 95 per cent of Saudi Arabian infants. Bilharzia, a parasitic disease, weakens those it attacks. In the Near East, it is almost as prevalent as malaria...
Teen-age girls in San Jose, Calif., like teen-age girls anywhere, share books, boys, hair curlers, lipsticks and apparently eyebrow pencils. It all seemed innocent enough until two years ago when one girl returned from a trip to Mexico unaware that she had contracted trachoma-an infection that attacks the cornea of the eye and can scar it badly enough to cause permanent blindness. That single case of a disease relatively uncommon in the U.S. spread rapidly into an epidemic of 80. The virus, reported California's Dr. Phillips Thygeson last week, was transmitted by eyebrow pencils that...
...Wilde found a cluster of mud-brick hovels and 4,000 people barely subsisting on 200 acres of farm land, probably unchanged in most respects since the days of the Pharaohs. The streets are cluttered by famished yellow dogs and skinny children with red-lidded eyes half-closed by trachoma and stomachs distended by bilharziasis. Young girls in ankle-length dresses go gracefully by with water jugs balanced on their heads. Most will be married at 15, lie on their deathbeds at 40. Many peasants still drink from the filthy canals, scorning the "weak" water supplied by a new artesian...
...making "some dogmatic statements and sweeping suggestions based on grossly inadequate knowledge." They recognize 400 viruses as infecting vertebrates, rate 50 of them, including rabies, as unclassifiable, and put the rest in six groups (see chart). They leave out the large "mantle viruses'' of parrot fever and trachoma, which are vulnerable to antibiotics and other drugs...