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In the early 1970s, the Aboriginal community of Bourke attempted to improve its socioeconomic and health status through a number of community development activities. As a result, markers of nutrition in early childhood, housing conditions and access to health care all improved, in spite of a deterioration in employment opportunities and adult health. Coincidentally, most markers of the health of Aboriginal children in Bourke improved over the period 1971-84. In particular, Aboriginal child admissions due to gastroenteritis, eye and ear infections and accidents, and the community prevalence of trachoma, middle ear disease and pneumonia among Aboriginal children, decreased. Skin infections were an exception to this general picture, becoming more prevalent over the period.
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PMID:Change in aboriginal childhood morbidity and mortality in Bourke 1971-84. 236 Oct 71

Oman is generally hot and dry, but the Salalah region in southern Dhofar province is relatively cool and rainy during the summer monsoon, and has a distinctive pattern of infection. Important, notifiable infections in Oman include tuberculosis, brucellosis (endemic in Dhofar), acute gastroenteritis, and viral hepatitis: 4.9% of the adults are seropositive for hepatitis B surface antigen and approximately 1.2% for hepatitis C virus. Infection with human immunodeficiency virus is uncommon, and leprosy, rabies, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever are rare. Between 1990 and 1998, the incidence of malaria, (>70% due to Plasmodium falciparum) decreased from 32,700 to 882 cases. Cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis (caused by Leishmania tropica and L. infantum, respectively) and Bancroftian filariasis occur sporadically. Intestinal parasitism ranges from 17% to 42% in different populations. A solitary focus of schistosomiasis mansoni in Dhofar has been eradicated. There are major programs for the elimination of tuberculosis, leprosy, and malaria, and to control brucellosis, leishmaniasis, sexually transmitted diseases, trachoma, acute respiratory infection in children, and diarrheal diseases. The Expanded Program on Immunization was introduced in 1981: diphtheria, neonatal tetanus, and probably poliomyelitis have been eliminated.
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PMID:Infectious and tropical diseases in Oman: a review. 1067 71

The feeding and reproductive habits of non-biting synanthropic flies make them important mechanical vectors of human pathogens. Synanthropic flies are major epidemiologic factors responsible for the spread of acute gastroenteritis and trachoma among infants and young children in (predominantly) developing countries. House flies are involved in mechanical transmission of nosocomial infections with multiple antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospital environments.
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PMID:The role of non-biting flies in the epidemiology of human infectious diseases. 1135 17

In February 1985, a Canadian medical relief team was established in a northern Ethiopia refugee camp. Volunteer physicians, nurses, and support staff have worked in the camp since February 1985. Their activities range from supervising intensive feeding programs, to controlling infections, to educating patients. About 300-400 patients visit the outpatient clinics daily. Malnutrition, vitamin A and B deficiencies, scurvy, rickets, gastroenteritis, malaria, leprosy, tuberculosis, pneumonia, trachoma and tetanus are commonly seen. The continuing presence of the medical team depends on donations and volunteer participation.
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PMID:A canadian medical team in ethiopia. 2127 28