Story by André B. Sobocinski, Historian | U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery | 07.28.2023
Although the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps has never been overrun with the filariasis it has not been immune to it either. Remarkably, between 1915 and 1945, there were only two years in which Sailors and Marines were not diagnosed with filariasis. In World War II—with the swell of deployed military populations in areas endemic with filariasis—Navy physicians diagnosed some 12,040 cases. Of......
Story by Spc. Kiersten Breunig | Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa | 03.22.2022
The Combined Joint Task Force- Horn of Africa surgeon cell hosted partners and other U.S. military medical professionals during a Military Tropical Medicine Course (MTMC) here March 1-3, 2022. The course provided participants with the most recent knowledge and skills to address infectious and communicable diseases commonly found in East Africa....
Story by Staff Sgt. Allyson Manners | Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa | 11.17.2017
Medical professionals from across the military services, foreign militaries and local community joined together to discuss challenges posed to medical personnel providing care for troops operating within the Horn of Africa and the East African region at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Nov. 14 to 16, 2017....
Story by Staff Sgt. Christian Jadot | Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa | 11.17.2016
U.S. personnel and medical providers from partner nations attend a course dedicated to military tropical medicine at Camp Lemonnier, 15 Nov. 2016. The Joint U.S. Military Tropical Medicine course is designed to train and instruct medical personnel in the practice of medicine for developing areas around the globe. The course covers topics such as malaria, HIV, yellow fever and other diseases....
