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MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS--After being questioned about pulmonary symptoms, the selected subjects had peripheral blood examined for total leukocyte and eosinophil counts; stools for ova, cysts, and parasites; sputum for acid-fast bacilli, and chest radiography. Subjects with blood eosinophilia of &gt; or = 2000\/mm3 were classified as having pulmonary eosinophilia. One of the 200 asymptomatic control subjects had blood eosinophilia &gt; 2000\/mm3. Twenty two (7.7%) of a further 286 subjects selected at random were found to have microfilaraemia. Between 1981 and 1984 the annual incidences of pulmonary eosinophilia were estimated at 4.1, 3.1, and 2.7\/1000 while the prevalence rates were 6.4, 9.3, and 11.9\/1000 respectively. This rising prevalence over time occurring simultaneously with a falling incidence suggests that the final incidence rate (2.7\/1000) was likely to be the most accurate of the three estimated. At resurvey in 1986, 314 cases were classified as pulmonary eosinophilia giving a prevalence rate of 12.6\/1000. Altogether 214 of them also had intestinal worm infestations, including 58 in whom eosinopenic remission was recorded after deworming alone. Eosinopenic remission was documented in 135 of 182 cooperative patients who were considered to have tropical pulmonary eosinophilia and agreed to be treated with diethylcarbamazine. 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