Dean G, Bhigjee A I, Bill P L, Fritz V, Chikanza I C, Thomas J E, Levy L F, Saffer D
Medico-Social Research Board, Dublin, Ireland.
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1994 Sep;57(9):1064-9. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.57.9.1064.
Multiple sclerosis is rare among the indigenous black people of Africa. The first account of a black patient with multiple sclerosis in South Africa was published as late as 1987. Since then a search to find black patients with multiple sclerosis in Southern Africa has continued. Seven black patients have now been traced in South Africa and five in Zimbabwe in whom a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis can be accepted. Six of the 12 patients became blind, or nearly so, from severe optic neuritis. Multiple sclerosis in these few black patients more often resembled the disorder as it occurs in oriental people than among white people in southern Africa or the black people of North America or the Caribbean.
多发性硬化症在非洲本土黑人中较为罕见。南非首例关于黑人多发性硬化症患者的报道直到1987年才发表。从那时起，人们一直在南非寻找患有多发性硬化症的黑人患者。目前已在南非追踪到7名黑人患者，在津巴布韦追踪到5名，他们的多发性硬化症诊断可以被认可。这12名患者中有6人因严重视神经炎而失明或几乎失明。这少数黑人患者的多发性硬化症与东方人患的这种疾病更为相似，而不像南非的白人、北美或加勒比地区的黑人所患的疾病。
