[leish-l] RES: leish-l digest, Vol 1 #124 - 2 msgs

Tue Oct 28 11:11:30 BRST 2003

To my friends,
We have published an article about five cases with mucosal leishmaniasis produzing litic lesions in oral cavity principally palatal bone with bone reabsortion in peruvian mummies of Inca empire at central coast of Peru. It was in Revista of Archaeology and Etnology Museum of University of São Paulo (2001).
Also, we are organizing the event of 100 years of descovering of Leishmania parasite. It will be in November, 19, at 9:30 horas in the campus at the Oswaldo Cruz Fundation.
Alfredo

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	   1. Leishmaniasis: American soldiers returning from Iraq (Peter Singfield)
	   2. For SBPz Members New Version of Statutes (jeffreyj at usp.br)

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	Message: 1
	Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:45:37 -0600
	To: leish-l at fat.org.br
	From: Peter Singfield <snkm at btl.net>
	Subject: [leish-l] Leishmaniasis: American soldiers returning from Iraq

	http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20031024/ts_nm/health_bloo
	d_soldiers_dc_3

	US Puts Blood Ban on Soldiers Returning from Iraq

	By Paul Simao

	ATLANTA (Reuters) - American soldiers returning from Iraq (news - web
	sites) are being told not to give blood for up to one year to prevent the
	possible spread of a parasite into the U.S. blood supply, federal health
	officials said on Thursday.

	The precautionary ban was ordered by the Department of Defense (news - web
	sites) and the nation's largest association of blood banks following an
	outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis among U.S. soldiers serving in the
	Persian Gulf and Afghanistan (news - web sites).

	Leishmaniasis, which is endemic in the Middle East, tropics and some parts
	of southern Europe, is usually spread by the bite of sand flies. Those
	infected develop painless skin lesions that can, if left untreated, cause
	scars.

	Visceral leishmaniasis, the more serious form of the disease, can damage
	internal organs and cause death.

	The new blood donor restrictions will apply to soldiers for 12 months after
	their last day in Iraq, according to a report published on Thursday by the
	U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites).

	The lengthy deferral is due to the difficulty of detecting the parasite
	responsible for leishmaniasis, which can incubate for several months and
	produce no symptoms or only mild illness in those infected.

	UP TO 25 DAYS

	It also can survive for up to 25 days in blood stored under normal
	conditions, according to the Department of Defense's Armed Services Blood
	Program office. There are no reports of infections occurring through blood
	transfusions in the United States, where incidence of the disease is rare.

	The World Health Organization (news - web sites) estimates that 2 million
	cases of the disease occur each year, mostly in developing nations in Africa.

	Between August, 2002 and September, 2003, a total of 22 U.S. soldiers in
	Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan contracted leishmaniasis. All recovered after
	being treated for three weeks at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington,
	D.C.

	Another nine cases have surfaced in the past two months.

	Defense officials believe that the majority of the soldiers, who came from
	different branches of the U.S. military, were infected while serving in
	areas around the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and An Nassiriya.

	Recent tests conducted by the U.S. military found that more than 1 percent
	of sand flies in Iraq carried the parasite.

	Although the ban will remove thousands of servicemen from the rolls of
	blood donors, many of these would already have been excluded because of the
	military's existing blood ban for soldiers returning from areas where
	malaria was endemic.

	There is no vaccine or medication to prevent the disease, and those
	infected are banned for life from donating blood.

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	Message: 2
	Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:42:08 -0200
	From: jeffreyj at usp.br
	To: Leish-L <leish-l at fat.org.br>
	Subject: [leish-l] For SBPz Members New Version of Statutes

	Sociedade Brasileira de Protozoologia
	(Brazilian Society of Protozoology)
	XIX. Reunião da SBPz
	XXX. Reunião para Pesquisa Básica em Doença de Chagas

	Dear Member,
	We would be grateful if you would have a look and the new version of the
	Society's statutes that will be discussed at the SBPz meeting on 11.11.2003.
	The full text can be found at the following link:
	www.icb.usp.br/~sbpz/EstatutosNew.zip
	Best wishes
	Caxambu 2003 Meeting Organizers

	Prezado/a  Sócio/Sócia,
	Gostariamos de apresentar uma nova versão dos estatutos da SBPz que deve ser
	discutida na reunião da SBPz no dia 11.11. 2003 em Caxambu. Por favor, confiram
	os textos a serem votados clicando no link abaixo.
	Atenciosamente,
	Os coordenadores da Reunião e a SBPz
	Novos estatutos : www.icb.usp.br/~sbpz/EstatutosNew.zip

	(socio)

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