Open AccessOscar Costa-Mandry and Posthurricane Bacillary Dysentery
Author(s) -
B Christenson
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/503912
Subject(s) - bacillary dysentery , outbreak , medicine , dysentery , puerto rican , environmental health , virology , ethnology , pathology , history
After the recent hurricanes Katrina and Rita, outbreaks of waterborne viral and bacterial diseases were expected. Dr. Oscar Costa-Mandry, a Puerto Rican bacteriologist and epidemiologist in the 1930s, identified the relationship between hurricanes and epidemic bacillary dysentery in townships that were directly affected by hurricanes.
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