By the inoculation of guinea pigs intraperitoneally with the emulsions of kidneys from wild rats and mice captured in Guayaquil, it was found that 67 per cent of the wild rats tested harbored in their kidneys a leptospira which produced in guinea pigs symptoms and lesions identical with those produced by Leptospira icterohamorrhagia derived either from patients suffering from infectious jaundic...

only faces almost insurmountable problems as it tries to form a new government, it also faces many serious health issues including sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Surveillance data from the Ukrainian STD Center from January 1, 1989, through December 31, 1995, were analyzed on the basis of reports received through 1997. In western Europe, the incidence of syphilis and gonorrhea declined fr...

, Sir,-?Over 40 years ago Calmette (1908) noted that .(^i?ns resulting from the injection of viper venom .strangely resembled those observed in the case of pQividuals who have died from yellow fever M'mette further states that this observation was made y several scientists, notably Sanarelli, and that it had P'obably lead Dyer and Bettincour to treat?without "Uch success?yellow fever by the ant...

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