MEDICAL REPORT 14 AUG 90

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Subject: MEDICAL REPORT  14 AUG 90                                       

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Folder Title: MEDICAL REPORTING-DIVISION SURGEON                                                              

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                                                                                              UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.




                    DISEASESWITIILONGINCUBNFIONPERIODS(USUALLYMOR.C,'I'IUNISDAY@!

               VIML IIEPATMS (15 to 180 days)
                    Transm@on: Hepatitis A (MV)-pcrson to person by tire rccal-oral ionic; hcpail
                         contact with causativezgent through blood tmiis[usions, contangtin@ needles, i
                         and contafwnatcd perincal wounds; non-A non-B hepatitis (NANB)-tnny be et
                         transmitted (A-likc) or parenterally transmitted (B-like).
                    IUsk Periodll)lstr-ibtition. Year-round, wiqt increased incidence tiorti October to t
                         Occurs countrywide.
                    Remnrks: There are 600 to 800 reported cases of acuto hcpatltis annually, most or I       Al
                         bcpati@ A virus (HAV). RAV is circulating widely, but Improvements In sonitat        liav@ li      red
                         thelevelofcirculadon,cspcciallyinAbuD]i.iblandDtibal.Antibodicsoccurinanesiiiiiated5O
                         percent of children by age 10, and In almost 100 percent of adults. Antibodies to hepatitis B virus
                         OiBV)occurin2Oto-40perccntofiltopopulaij'on.7liollBVcartiermteiscsdinateda12percenL
                         'nic delta agent (IIDV) has not been reported but Is suspected. parenterally-ttaiisinfited NANB
                         hcpatitis(liepatii;sCor[ICV)Isrcrnriedsporadically.Entcrically-transmittcdNANDliepatitis
                         has not been reported. liAV, HBV, and fiCV are mijor health hazards to nonlndlgcnotis personnel.

                              OTIIER DISEASES RNDEMIC IN TIIE INDIGENOUS I'OIIULjVrION
                    Zoonctic ftcnsts - Unicellosts (enzootic In livcst6ck, especially gouts; a common cnuso of revot In.-
y
                         consumption of raw dairy products); nibics (cnzoot-.'C fit [lie fox population and diagnosed
                         sporadically in stray dogs, but there have been no reported Cases In liumans).
                    Sexually transmitted diseases - Through tire end of 1989, only 2 cases of AIDS had been officially
                         reportcd,butaticast22personsliavediedofAIDSandttnotlier262[ndividunisatercportcd[a
                         have IIIV Infections.
                    Other Infections discuses -Tuberculosis (endemic, but tire annual Incidence fins been declining
                         (300 cases in 19@) and the prevalence is low (cstimated at 0.1 lo 0.2 percent)); trjiclioran (ca=
                         are common, but control mczisurcstrc lowering the incidence); soft tratisriiiiietl fielnitnilife
                         Infections (roundworm, hookworm, and wliipworm Infections occur among nt)nljtdlgcnous
                         workers, but [lie incidence is very low, especially for hookworms, among the Indigenous
                         population).















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                  revised: April 1990

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