[PDF] Top 20 Plague in the Americas: Uruguay

... Fern&ndez Espiro reported to the III Pan Ameritan Sanitary Conference that the system of surveillance (uigilaneia) of paesengers after they left the ehip had [r] ... See full document

... of Sao Paulo and the Manguinhos (now Oswaldo Cruz) Institute in Rio de Janeiro.73 Oswaldo Cruz reported that the use of serum reduced plague mortality 50 percent.‘* De [r] ... See full document

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... It is proposed to make systematic studies so as to determine the occurrence and frequency of the various flea species concerned on (a) the wild rodents and lagomorpha; [r] ... See full document

... requires the same technical and ethical concerns to be raised whenever samples are obtained from individuals in a population for testing ...purposes. In collaboration with the Office of Naval ... See full document

... The unknown and most im- portant factor is whether the infection has since maintained itself in the wild rodents or has been periodically transmitted to them by[r] ... See full document

... around Taco-Taco. There were cases in Lagunita, Cruz Grande, Rumicancha, Carrillos, Guayavillas, Campanario, Totora, Taco-Taco, Cañas, and San Francisco. No domestic r[r] ... See full document

... N. desertorum) ; kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ordii) ; and cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus nuttallii). Dead cats have been reported in connection with plague outbreaks in Ar[r] ... See full document

... 6’ U. Venezuela and Trinidad bad been en- gaged in imposing quarantines rrgainst eaeh other about this time. Lu&, for the conference.. All 3 Tunapuna cases were f[r] ... See full document

... Referencea to plague in New York concern the arrival in that port on November 18.1899, of the British stewnship J. TayZor, with two cases of bubonic plague on board. The steward, i[r] ... See full document

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... It also sent a physician (Dur&n) to study plague bacteriology io Santiago for three months at its expense. It is interesting to find one of the Board members [r] ... See full document

... Control.-Plague control work in Paraguay has sometimes consisted chiefiy of extermination of rats, isolation and treatment of cases, vac- cination, and general sanit[r] ... See full document

... clinicsl diagnosis of plague was made, in ccnsultation with a local physician, in s human case, which died and presented at autcpsy findings which were sccepted [r] ... See full document

... Vaccination and serum-therapy.-While the isolation of cases, ob- servation of contacts, and destruction of rats and rat harbors have been the principal weapons use[r] ... See full document

... Cases and contacts were isolated in special hospitals (Zazaretos) and barracks (contacts received new clothes and a monetary subsidy to compensate for their conímem[r] ... See full document

... Bubonic cases of plague were reported from the five countries of the Americas where endemic foci of plague have been active for the last several years.. During this peri[r] ... See full document

... According to the observations made by Eskeylg in his epidemiological studies in connection with the cooperative plague control campaign begun by the Peruvian autho[r] ... See full document

... Another factor is the custom of eating animals found dead, which may set up a septicemia with rapid pulmonary localization, so that in some instances it is dif[r] ... See full document

... The great abundance of human fleas (Pulex irritans) together with the occurrence of human cases in areas where domestic and wild rodents and their fleas are scarce[r] ... See full document