Studies of hookworm disease in Puerto Rico
Rodriguez-Molina, R.; Oliver-Gonzalez, J.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 44(10): 379-383
1952
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 13018354 Document Number: 702127
In Puerto Rico, hookworm disease was responsible for 2.1% of all deaths in 1933 and 1.8% in 1934. The mortality in. 1950 fell to 0.9 per 100, 000 of the population. This is attributed to the control and sanitation campaign instituted by the Insular Health Department. The authors are of the opinion that the problem in Puerto Rico is mainly economic and neither mass treatment nor anti-anaemic therapy will solve it as permanent cure is prevented by the return of the patients to the prevalent environmental and economic conditions.