Waziristan Ophiolite: A back-arc basin caught in continental collision, Waziristan, NW Pakistan

Epidemiology of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Outbreak, Waziristan, Pakistan

During 2013-2015, prevalence of cutaneous leishmaniasis in war-affected Waziristan areas was 3.61% by PCR. Youths (1-15 years of age) were more susceptible. Internal transcribed spacer 1 PCR followed by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis identified Leishmania tropica in 215 samples and Leishmania major in 6 samples.

Colitis in Waziristan and Its Prevention

and hypochondriasis were only responsible for a very few limited and obstinate cases. The principal causes here were:? (?) Bad water. (?) Bad food. As regards bad water, two kinds of water were responsible for the disease :? (a) Muddy water. (b) Water containing in solution mineral salts such as magnesia, mica, etc. The first kind of water was the cause of the disease in the G-omal Valley. Thou...

Epidemic of Jaundice, Waziristan Field Force

that the patient's death was due to acute (yellow) atrophy of the liver. In the second Indian case? also in No. 14, Indian General Hospital, I suspected death to be due to the same cause, but the evidence here was not so strong as in the first patient. In neither of the above was a post-mortem obtainable. On the British soldier, who died in No. 18, British General Hospital, with much the same s...

Probable Causes of Fever in the Waziristan Field Force

Prevalence of HBV infection in suspected population of conflict-affected area of war against terrorism in North Waziristan FATA Pakistan.

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major cause of severe liver diseases including fibrosis, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cirrhosis related end stage liver diseases (ESLD) in mankind. It is a common belief that infectious diseases have historically been responsible for the massiveness of war-related deaths, so the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of HBV infec...