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Published on: February 3, 2012
[Hepatitis C in Egypt, a iatrogenic epidemy]
1UCLA-NELC 90.025-1511, USA. wendrich@barnard.nl
Abstract:
Between 1918 and 1982, millions of patients suffering from bilharzia (infection by Schistosoma mansoni) in Egypt were treated with a series of injections with potassium-antimony tartrate. During large campaigns, aimed at the eradication of the parasite, syringes and needles were re-used without being properly sterilized. This has led to a wide spread of the hepatitis C virus, by which the prevalence of hepatitis C in Egypt is now the highest in the world. The results of this iatrogene epidemic will be devastating.
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