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“HopeT Is Basis
Of Heart Campaign
High among the objectives of the 1954 Heart Fund, now underway in Virginia and throughout the nation, is the conquest of rheumatic fever, forerunner of rheumatic heart disease. It is childhood’s number one enemy.
Striking most often in the five to ninteen year age bracket, rheumatic fever is responsible for more than ninty percent of defective heartenchildren, and for a great many crippled hearts in adult life.
Despite the fact that in some areas of the United States rheumatic fever causes nearly five times as many deaths as polio, meningitis, whooping cough, measles and diptheria combined, the outlook Warrants optimism.
Almost invariably rheumatic fever is ,preceded by “strep" infection. Prompt and efficient treatment with antibiotics under a doctor’s direction, may prevent development of rheumatic fever.
Moreover, recurrent rheumatic fever attacks can be -forestalled through the* use of certain drugs and antibiotics.
Research investigators supported by Heart Fund contributions are seek- * ing to identify the precise agent responsible for the inflamation and scarring of the heart muscle and valves in rheumatic fever. Some significant leads have been developed.
Notable advances also are being made in surgery, to correct heart
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