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Blood Trials: Transfusions, Injections, and Experiments in Africa, 1890-1920.
Abstract From about 1880 to 1920, a culture of medical experimentation promoted blood transfusion as a therapy for severe anemia in Europe, which was applied in German East Africa in 1892 for a case of blackwater fever, a complication of malaria afflicting mainly Europeans. This first case of blood transfusion in Africa, in which an African's blood was transfused into a German official, complicates the dominant narrative that blood transfusions in Africa came only after World War I. Medical researchers moreover experimented with blood serum therapies on human and animal subjects in Europe and Africa, injecting blo...
Source: Medical History - October 29, 2015 Category: History of Medicine Authors: Sunseri T Tags: J Hist Med Allied Sci Source Type: research

Malaria Surveillance - United States, 2017
This report summarizes confirmed malaria cases in persons with onset of illness in 2017 and trends in previous years.DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM: Malaria cases diagnosed by blood film microscopy, polymerase chain reaction, or rapid diagnostic tests are reported to local and state health departments through electronic laboratory reports or by health care providers or laboratory staff members. Case investigations are conducted by local and state health departments, and reports are transmitted to CDC through the National Malaria Surveillance System (NMSS), the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), or direct CDC ...
Source: MMWR Surveill Summ - March 18, 2021 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kimberly E Mace Naomi W Lucchi Kathrine R Tan Source Type: research