Jungle medicine revisited: an Oklahoma medical team visits Bolivia

Twenty-five adventurous physicians, nurses, oral surgeons, lab technicians, and lay support persons visited the remote Bolivian village of Corroico during February, 1995. During the next week, they treated 1200 patients with maladies of all types. Intestinal parasites, failure to thrive, leishmaniasis, tuberculosis, multiple dental caries, and ear, nose and throat infections comprised the majority of the conditions treated. Over $50,000 in medications were dispensed during the week.