World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 299: World Health Organization Expert Committee on Bilharziasis

By D. M. Blair

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Title:	World Health Organization : Technical Report Series, No. 299: World Health Organization Expert Committee on Bilharziasis
Author:	D. M. Blair
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Excerpt
WHO EXPERT COMMITTEE ON BILHARZIASIS Third Report The WHO Expert Committee on Bilharziasis met in Geneva from 28 September to 3 October 1964. Professor G. Macdonald was elected Chairman, Professor A. H. Mousa, Vice-Chairman, and Professor N. G. Hairston, Rapporteur. In opening the meeting on behalf of the Director-General, Dr P. Dorolle, Deputy Director-General, recalled that the basis for the programme of work implemented by the World Health Organization was laid in 1952 by the first WHO Expert Committee, which cowred the entire field of bilharziasis. In the intervening years, scientific groups and a second Expert Committee were convened to examine various aspects of the disease such as its public health importance, snail ecology, molluscicides, immunobiological diagnosis, pathobiology and immunity, and chemotherapy. The special problems raised by the disease in _4frica were discussed at two conferences, one held in 1956 in Brazzaville. Congo, the other in 1960 at Louren~o Marques, Mozambique

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1 . HEALTH AND ECOXOMIC I\IPORTXCE OF BILHARZIASIS . . . 7 1.1 Distribution and prevalence . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.2 Morbidity and mortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3 Relation between econonlic development schemes and bilharziasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2 . EPIDEMIOLOGAYN D BILHARZIASIS . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.1 Dynamics of transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.2 Mathematical analysis of life-cycle dynamics . . . . 20 2.3 Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3 . PATHOLOGY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.1 Factors in pathogenicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 3.2 Techniques of study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 3.3 Significance in therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 . 4 . CONTROL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 4.1 Guiding principles in relation to objectives of control 40 4.2 Choice of methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 4.3 Programme planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 5 . RESEARC.H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 5.1 Place in bilharziasis programmes . . . . . . . . . . 53 5.2 Selected subjects for first attention . . . . . . . . . 53 Annex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56