Conjunctivitis is the commonest eye disease in Egypt, where it presents a major problem of public health. The chief menace of acute infective conjunctivitis lies in the corneal complications which may cause blindness. Since the late 1930s, the gonococcus and KochWeeks bacillus have been regarded as the most common causes of this condition in Egypt (Wilson, I935; Lyons and Amies, I949), but othe...

Optimal nutrition is critical to the attainment of healthy growth, human capital and sustainable development. In Egypt, infants and young children face overlapping forms of malnutrition, including micronutrient deficiencies, stunting and overweight. Yet, in this setting, little is known about the factors associated with growth during the first year of life. A rise in stunting in Lower Egypt fro...

The alluvial plain of the Ceyhan River (SE Turkey) has been populated since the Neolithic. In 1954, Marjory Veronica Seton-Williams described for this area several archeological mounds (höyük), which are the remains of ancient settlements. Today, according to the archeological research carried out in the area, some of these mounds result to have been leveled by agricultural activities. In this ...

BACKGROUND A 2006 avian influenza (AI) outbreak resulted in mass removal of chickens in Lower Egypt, which decreased the household supply of poultry. Poultry, a key animal-source food, contains nutrients critical for child growth. This paper examines determinants of stunting between 2006 and 2008 in children 6 to 59 months of age within the context of the AI outbreak. METHODS The 2005 and 200...

Background: Iron deficiency (ID) and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in adolescents tends to increase with age due to acceleration of growth. Objectives: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of ID and IDA in adolescent girls in rural Upper Egypt. Methods: 912 girls in 5 different village preparatory schools situated in El-Minya governorate at Upper Egypt were enrolled in the study. Complet...

The facies changes, tectonics and magmatism across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in the southern Tethyan margin have been studied in Egypt, Sudan, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. In Saudi Arabia and Jordan an unconformable contact is recognized between the Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic rocks. This unconformity surface is marked by the truncation of the fluvial clastics of the uppermost Triassic b...

results during january 2002 to december 2009, 213835 injured cases were admitted to the trauma unit. the number of attendants increased every year from 9.3% from the total cases in all study period in 2002 up to 15.3% in 2009 with a statistically significant difference (p = 0.000). young adults aged 20 - 29 years were the most common group affected by injuries (22.2%). male to female ratio was ...

break of 1883 in Egypt, but will be strictly limited to an endeavour to explain the origin of the outbreak, yet it will not, I trust, fail in creating an interest among the members of the Society. If it does this, it will have served the purpose for which it was written. Egypt is a very extensive country. It extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the Equator. It is not, however, this vast countr...