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...hope of developing closer connections between the United States and Brazil, Maurice Stoinburg ''39 is circulating a petition for establishing a Brazilian Institute in New England with the official support of Dr. Hdefonso Falcao, Brazilian Consul in Boston...
...purpose of the school would be to teach Portuguese, and to stress the history, geography, art, literature, and economics of Brazil. Instruction would be free to qualified Harvard students, and the Brazilian government would support it financially...
...Anopheles gambiae, continued Mr. Fosdick, is "the most dangerous member of a dangerous family": the malaria mosquitoes. Native home of the gambiae is Central Africa, but about nine years ago they crossed the Atlantic presumably in a French airplane which flew from Dakar in West Africa, to Natal in Brazil. They were spotted by Dr. Raymond Corbett Shannon, a member of the Foundation's staff. Within a year they had flown with the prevailing winds 115 miles up the coast...
Last year, in the Jaguaribe River Valley of eastern Brazil, the gambiae spread more than 50,000 cases of malaria. In certain districts the mortality rate was as high as 10%. After leaving 90% of the Jaguaribeans feeble and impoverished, the gambiae continued their flight. If the mosquitoes should reach "the well-watered Parnahyba and Sâo Francisco River Valleys [in east-central Brazil]," wrote Mr. Fosdick, ". . . it would be impossible to prevent [their] spread to a large part of South. Central, and perhaps even North America. The Parnahyba Valley is 500 miles from Natal; the gambiae mosquitoes...
...Foundation has set aside $100.000 for gambiae control in Brazil, and Foundation workers have already learned all the habits of the enemy. Gambiae are "domesticated insects." They breed prolifically, mature within eight days, frequent stagnant, sunlit puddles, prefer to nip their human victims indoors. In the infested parts of Brazil an anti-gambiae corps backed by the Rockefeller Foundation is being rushed into action...