Archaeology & Anthropology - Juniper Publishers Introduction It is of great paradox that, besides medical scientific journals, in general science (and even in general press such as feminine magazines for example), very few is written on the plague of human reproduction which is eclampsia (and pre-eclampsia). Yet, these diseases are responsible of ap. 50,000 maternal deaths worldwide each year (among some 135 million human pregnancies annually) [1] and infinitely much more human neonatal deaths, notably in poor countries. For example, in a recent study in the University maternity of the capital of Madagascar, there were during a 8-months follow-up 145 cases of preeclampsia of which 65 (45%) ended in eclampsia (epileptic seizures “grand-mal”) with 7 maternal deaths of young women (24 to 34 years of age), and among eclamptics 40 (61%) neonatal deaths [2]. This discretion is mainly due to the fact that since a century now [3] Eclampsia/Preeclampsia has bee...
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