The intestinal infections are an attractive starting place in arctic epidemiology because the mass behavior of these diseases has been well worked out through long study in temperate and tropical regions. Also, the required bacteriological procedures are relatively simple, a consideration of moment in the arctic where field conditions are as difficult as they are. Alaska was chosen as the first study area. As a cultural and administrative part of the United States, conditions were good for communication and cooperation.The primary purpose was to determine under arctic conditions the mode of transmission of acute infectious diarrhea of man, and to learn something of prevalence and seasonal incidence. Also, intestinal parasites of dog and man were surveyed in two villages, and the ecology of fish tapeworm was examined in one area.
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From: Fortuine, Robert et al. 1993. The Health of the Inuit of North America: A Bibliography from the Earliest Times through 1990. University of Alaska Anchorage. Citation number 1706.
Cited in: Fortuine, Robert. 1968. The Health of the Eskimos: a bibliography 1857-1967. Dartmouth College Libraries. Citation number 682.