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DR. G. ARBOUR STEPHENS, 61 Walter Road, Swansea, referring to a recent Colonial Office Medical Report on the Falkland Islands, states that although the weather there is described as very damp and “permanent October” weather, and although the houses are damp, the soil acid, the food so poor that the school children wear dentures, and septic tonsillitis (due to Streptococcus) is so common, nevertheless rheumatic fever does not occur. This, he claims, supports the view that rheumatic fever is due to a protozoon (something like the malarial parasite), for the necessary insect carriers, such as harvest bugs, midges and fleas do not exist on the Islands.
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Rheumatic Fever as a Protozoal Disease. Nature 141, 197 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141197e0
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