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Histoplasmosis, a little
known disease. Histoplasmosis is the motive of an investigation of the
Mexican Red Cross in the tourist caves of Mexico. The National Society
of the Red Cross not only provides underground assistance but also performs
in the preventive labor field. This project will be conducted, within our
possibilities as to identify health problems and safety questions related
to people confined in caves as a high priority. In this sense, we have
detected as a health problem the presence of a microscopic fungus, defined
as Histoplasma capsulatum that provokes a disease known as histoplasmosis
the one which alters in a virulent way the human organization. We consider
that a preventive attitude according to the criteria of this investigation
can influence a reduction of histoplasmosis among the caves visitors. Therefore
we focus the primary interest of this study to the
caves destined tourism
in bulk, where the visitors ignore the existence of this pathology, the
one which is frequently confused by non specialties physicians with the
sintomatology of respiratory tract ailment causing through a wrong treatment
an aggravation of the patient’s condition.
At the Mexican Red Cross
we consider convenient to provide the caves explorers with enough information
about histoplasmosis and make clear that the disease exists and cannot
be ignored. They must know that an effective treatment is available. At
present we know for sure that there is no way to guarantee to cave visitors
explorations without the risks of histoplasmosis. Tourist must face the
fact that an exposition to fungus may occur in any hole or crevasse. We
suppose that in all the caves in which inhabit bats there are colonies
of Histoplasma capsulatum. Physicians it is classified as an occupational
disease that affects: mines workers and engineers, archeologists and speleologists.
These hysicians
will define such case
as work accident.
Investigation plan
The first phase of the investigation intends to detect the devastation of the fungis Histoplasma capsulatum in the Mexican tourist caves with the support of the Tourism Secretariat and the National Diagnosis Institute and Epidemiological Reference of the Health Secretariat.
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