Geographically.?Ten cases from Mysore City, four (cases 2, 3, 12, 13) from different large villages, situated at a distance of up to 40 miles from Mysore, within the city three patients (cases 5, 6, 7) who lived in two opposite houses and fell ill within one and the same week; in cases 1 and 10 and 11 and 14, respectively, the patients lived close to each other but each of these couples lived i...

After 20 years under the umbrella of the Organisation de Coordination et de Coopération pour la lutte contre les Grandes Endémies (organization for coordination and cooperation against major endemic diseases), the Centre de Recherche sur les Méningites et les Schistosomoses (the meningitis and schistosomiasis research center) has been placed under the Niger Ministry of Public Health. It has bec...

Rheumatoid arthritis is an endemic disease known throughout the world. Its aetiology is unknown. No meaningful differences in prevalence rates between populations or races have so far been established, although Lawrence (1959) has shown a small difference in prevalence between rural and urban communities. Large geographical differences in prevalence are unlikely to have escaped detection by ord...

Eight longhouses were selected randomly for a goitre survey in the Entabai area of the Sixth Division, Sarawak. 645 subjects were examined and a goitre prevalence of 46.4% (15 years and above) was found. The females had a higher rate of 69.5% as compared with their male counterparts with 24.4%. Below the age of 15 years, prevalence was low and there was not much difference between the two sexes...

[This corrects the article on p. 621 in vol. 88.].

Substantial development assistance has been directed towards reducing the high malaria burden in Malawi over the past decade. We assessed changes in transmission over this period of malaria control scale-up by compiling community Plasmodium falciparum rate (PfPR) data during 2000-2011 and used model-based geostatistical methods to predict mean PfPR2-10 in 2000, 2005, and 2010. In addition, we c...

BACKGROUND Despite recent developments, health care provision in Indonesia remains suboptimal. Difficult terrain, economic crises, endemic diseases and high population numbers, coupled with limited availability of qualified health care professionals, all contribute to poor health status. In a country with a population of 220 million, there are currently an estimated 50 nurses and 26 midwives pe...

Planning for mass gatherings involves health system preparedness based on an understanding of natural and technological hazards identified through prior risk assessment. We present the expected hazards reported by health administrators of the host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and discuss the hazards considering minimal available public hospital beds in the 12 cities at the time ...

Purpose To assess for an association between conjunctival infection with nonchlamydial bacterial species and the presence of trachomatous scarring (TS) in women in central Tanzania. Methods Cross-sectional data were collected from a random sample of women ages 18 and older in 47 trachoma-endemic communities in Kongwa, Tanzania. Each participant completed a survey, provided a conjunctival swab...