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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                            OTIECR DISEASES ICNDEMIC IN TIIE INDIGENOUS POPULiVrION

                  Zoonotic d            Dnicellosls (enzoodc in livestock, especially goats, and a common cause of
                      fcvcr in humans in the southern Dliofar region; cases occur In rural areas, usually In the summer
                      months, and infection conunonly results from consumption of raw goats milk); rubles (enzootic
                      inthefoxpopulation,occuisverysporadicallyinsimydogs,usuallyinthemountalnouswand
                      villages of northeastern Oman; rarely reported In humans); Q feytr (rarely reported In humans,'.
                      but is eazoodc in flv@tock; human scrology in rural areas Indicates exposure).
                  Sexually trnusmitted diseases -Drough the end of 1989, 14 cases of AIDS wem officially
                      reported.
                  Other Infectious diseases -NberculosLs (ende@c; al(hougli flic annual Incidence Ims been
                      declining (379 cases ia 1988), the prevalence rcmalas high, especially In rural areas); tmchoma
                      (widcspread,withatiestimatcd5pctccntprevolencoofacdveca=%cspeciallyinrumiareas;
                      although the incidence has been declining as the result of control measures, tmclioma rcmnlns
                      a common cause of blindness); soil transmitted ficiniluthic Infections (roundworm, hookwonil,
                      and whipworn infections arc conunon In rural areas, but the prevalence Is low).

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