The Mississippi Valley disease histoplasmosis
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| Description | In this film, a host and two doctors examine histoplasmosis, also called the Mississippi Valley disease. The host first shows a little girl who has been hospitalized for months and has an enlarged spleen and liver due to histoplasmosis, and explains that she is in the company of 30 million others suffering from the disease. He then introduces a doctor who is a leading authority on histoplasmosis, who explains that around 80 percent of all people living in the Mississippi Valley area have had the disease at some point in their lives. He checks the skin test of the host, and says the host himself had the disease at one point in his life, and he probably just didn't know because it was so mild. The doctor shows a film about two men, Frank and his son David, who are working to clear a silo of bird droppings and feathers. David gets very ill, and Frank gets mildly ill. They are originally thought to have TB, and it is explained that x-ray results for tuberculosis and histoplasmosis are almo |
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| Source | collections.nlm.nih.gov |
| Author | Furcolow, Michael L., 1907-, Lehan, Patrick H., Ruhe, David S. (David Sieger), 1914-2005., University of Kansas. Television., Kansas Tuberculosis & Health Association., Communicable Disease Center (U.S.) |
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Attribution: Furcolow, Michael L., 1907-, Lehan, Patrick H., Ruhe, David S. (David Sieger), 1914-2005., University of Kansas. Television., Kansas Tuberculosis & Health Association., Communicable Disease Center (U.S.)