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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mr. Singfield:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just to set the record a bit straighter, the name
'Baghdad boil' is definitely old; I cite the oldest book I have on Tropical
Medicine:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Strong H. 1941. <EM>In</EM> Stitt's Diagnosis,
Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, Strong H. Sixth Edition, 1941.
The Blakiston Co., Philadelphia.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Strong says, in Chapter V, THE LEISHMANIASES (page
229): </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Synonyms</STRONG>. - For Indian Kala-azar, - dumdum fever, tropical
splenomegaly, black sickness; for infantile kala-azar, - splenic ahaemia of
infants, ponos; for Eastern cutaneous leishmaniasis, - oriental sore, Delhi
boil, Biskra button, Bagdad boil, bouton d'Orient, Aleppo boil, granuloma
endemicum, salek (Persia); for American cutaneous leishmaniasis, - espundia,
bubas, uta, forest yaws.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the same book, in Chapter VI, CUTANEOUS
LEISHMANIASES (page 293) Strong says, under: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>H</FONT>ISTORY AND <FONT size=4>G</FONT>EOGRAPHICAL <FONT
size=4>D</FONT>ISTRIBUTION</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>Geographical Distribution and Prevalence.</STRONG>- </DIV>
<DIV>........</DIV>
<DIV>.......</DIV>
<DIV>It has been reported by reliable observers that in Bagdad nearly every
child is attacked, and that it is quite exceptional for any native to attain
maturity without having had one or more of these sores, and that every woman in
Bagdad has on her face the ravages of this disease.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm certain there are much older references to the
term Bagdad boil or Baghdad boil.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Humberto Guerra, M.D., Ph.D., Dr.Med.<BR><A
href="mailto:hguerra@upch.edu.pe">hguerra@upch.edu.pe</A><BR>Professor of
Medicine<BR>Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt<BR>Universidad
Peruana Cayetano Heredia<BR>Postal Address: A.P. 4314, Lima 100, Perú<BR>Street
Address: Av. Honorio Delgado 430, Lima 31, Perú<BR>Tel: (51-1) 482-3903,
482-3910<BR>Fax: (51-1) 4823404<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "Peter Singfield" <</FONT><A
href="mailto:snkm@btl.net"><FONT face=Arial size=2>snkm@btl.net</FONT></A><FONT
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:49
AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: [leish-l] Baghdad Boil
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> <BR>> New name for cutaneous Leishmaniasis??<BR>> <BR>>
Baghdad Boil' disease afflicts 148 GIs in Iraq <BR>> <BR>> 05.12.2003
[17:15] <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Nearly 150 U.S. soldiers in Iraq have
been diagnosed with a parasitic skin<BR>> disease and hundreds more could
unknowingly be infected, doctors reported<BR>> Thursday. <BR>> <BR>>
Doctors fear that soldiers returning from the front may consult doctors
in<BR>> the United States who have never seen the disease. Complicating
matters:<BR>> The best drug used to treat it is not licensed in the United
States. <BR>> <BR>> Leishmaniasis, which soldiers have coined the "Baghdad
Boil," is carried by<BR>> biting sand flies and doesn't spread from person to
person. It causes skin<BR>> lesions that if untreated may take months, even
years, to heal. The lesions<BR>> can be disfiguring, doctors say. <BR>>
<BR>> So far, 148 soldiers have confirmed cases, but hundreds more are
expected,<BR>> says Army Lt. Col. Russell Coleman, an entomologist who spent
10 months in<BR>> Iraq with the 520th Theater Army Medical Laboratory. He
reported the<BR>> outbreak Thursday to the American Society of Tropical
Medicine and Hygiene,<BR>> meeting in Philadelphia. <BR>> <BR>> Sand
flies are active during warm weather, and soon after U.S. troops<BR>> arrived
in Iraq in late March, "we started seeing soldiers basically eaten<BR>>
alive," Coleman says. "They'd get a hundred, in some cases 1,000 bites in
a<BR>> single night." <BR>> <BR>> Insect repellents and bed nets are
standard issue, Coleman says, but many<BR>> units failed to pack them when
they were deployed. <BR>> <BR>> The sand flies have vanished with the
cooler weather in Iraq, but because<BR>> of a long incubation period, lesions
may not appear for six months or<BR>> longer after infection occurs. Coleman
and Army Lt. Col. Peter Weina, a<BR>> leishmaniasis expert still in Iraq,
predicted in April that there would be<BR>> 400 cases. <BR>> <BR>> All
affected soldiers are being sent to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in<BR>>
Washington, D.C., to be treated with the drug Pentosam. <BR>> <BR>>
<BR>> USA Today <BR>> <BR>> Article found at:<BR>>
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face=Arial
size=2>http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=28318&lang=en</FONT></A><BR><FONT
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