Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine. Vol. 14 No. 2, December 2016 56 Prior to the beginning of the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The average life expectancy at birth was 47 years (46 and 48 years for men and women respectively) even in the industrialized world. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typh...

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During a study on 500 dogs in Ibadan, 136 (27·2%) were found to be anaemic. Fifty-two of these were associated purely with blood parasites, twentyone with hookworm infection, while ten were associated with a mixture of blood parasitism and hookworm infection. Seventeen cases were associated with various conditions such as traumatic wounds, transmissible venereal tumour, nephritis, taeniasis, an...

Justin E. Harbison, Lara R. Dugas, William Brieger, Bamidele O. Tayo, Tunrayo Alabi, Dale A. Schoeller, and Amy Luke Division of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, Loyola University School of Medicine, Maywood Illinois; Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore Maryland; Geospatial Laboratory, Research for Developm...

∗We want to thank Dr. Connie Tukwasibwe, Blake Allen, Gunnar Hansson for assistance in obtaining and processing Kiga data. For helpful discussion and commentary, we thank Gunnar also, as well as Larry Hyman, Jaye Padgett, Gillian Gallgher, an audience at ABC↔C at Berkeley, and participants at the 3rd African Linguistics School in Ibadan, where the problem addressed in this paper came to our att...

Introduction and objectives: Dementia is progressive neuro-degeneration characterized by ongoing deterioration in cognition capacity for independent living. Empirical evidence lacking on the best screening tool because of cultural linguistic diversities Nigerians. This study screened dementia described differences between Rowland University Assessment Scale (RUDAS) Mini-Mental State Examination...