Schistosoma haematobium bilharziasis during overwintering in Adelie land: Health and operational risk in Antarctica

• Published in: Health Risk Analysis
• Main Author: A. Buguet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: FBSI “Federal Scientific Center for Medical and Preventive Health Risk Management Technologies” 2022
• Subjects: adelie land; antarctic; overwintering; schistosoma haematobium; niridazole; Medicine; R; Antarctic; Dumont d’Urville; Fossa; The Antarctic; Adelie Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21668/health.risk/2022.1.10.eng; https://doaj.org/article/e28ec2ee5edb41f8b2536e3552c81e2c

While serving from December 1970 to January 1972 as a medical doctor of the 21st French Polar Expedition in Adelie Land, Antarctica, at Dumont d’Urville Station, the author diagnosed Schistosoma haematobiumurinary bilharziasis in a winterer who suffered from pain in the right iliac fossa, at the beg...