Camping in the tropics

Unexplained Fever After a Camping Trip in the American Southwest.

An 8-year-old girl was evaluated for fevers of 39.4°C that developed 10 days after returning from a family camping trip. She complained of diffuse headache, nausea, and occasional emesis. Before her illness, 3 transient erythematous papules resembling insect bites on her abdomen were noted. Sore throat, cough, conjunctivitis, diarrhea, arthralgias, and myalgias were absent. Her symptoms, includ...

Age of Measles immunization in tropics

Vaccination in the Tropics

Fevers in the Tropics

Ihe value of Major Leonard Rogers' great book on Fevers in the Tropics has been quickly recognised find already a second edition lias appeared. This volume which so splendidly represents our knowledge of tropical fevers wiil long remain a monument of the untiring industry and patience of its author. It is dedicated to his brother officers in the Indian Medical Service, whose aid in the work of ...

Medicine in the Tropics

Fever in a child in the tropics fills a mother with fear; so often she has seen it the herald of death, or of fits, or of slow, lingering illness and handicap. She knows that fever replaces health and happiness in her child by fretfulness, misery, burning heat, and screaming (partly no doubt the result of throbbing headache). Her fear is justified. Mortality and morbidity from infection in chil...