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Elsewhere in the South Seas of the '30s, TV viewers will come upon Jake Cutter, mainstay of the Tales of the Gold Monkey (ABC, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.), who is not as burly as Buck, and is subject to occasional bouts of malaria besides. A hard-times flyboy with a beat-up leather jacket and a Terry and the Pirates cap, Cutter finds himself enmeshed, often to his considerable chagrin, in a variety of exotic adventures having to do with lost treasures and old legends. Cutter, attractively played by Stephen Collins, darts around in a wreck of a seaplane...
Exceptions exist--at the School of Public Health, for instance, Andrew Spielman, associate professor of Tropical Public Health, studies mosquito-borne diseases for the Army. What he learns about malaria will be as applicable to natives as to soldiers shooting natives...
...When a prevention for something like malaria is found, the general consensus is that it should be implemented. But when you try to investigate the reasons for the nation's number one cause of epilepsy--automobile accidents--you have to deal with General Motors," Nader said...
...come?a new alchemy that may one day turn the basest of creatures into genetic gold. That alchemy is already capable of making new drugs like the antiviral agent interferon, a possible weapon with which to attack cancer. In the future, it may produce vaccines against hepatitis and malaria; miracle products like low-calorie sugar; hardy self-fertilizing food crops that could usher in a new "green revolution"; fuels, plastics and other industrial chemicals, out of civilization's wastes; mining and refining processes to relieve Malthusian anxieties about a future without sufficient raw materials...
...list of deadly but controllable diseases is long and impressive: plague, diphtheria, malaria, polio, smallpox, typhoid and yellow fever. Even cancer and heart disease at last seem to be yielding up their secrets to medical research. But in the past ten years, doctors have focused on a number of mysterious "new" ailments, notably Legionnaires' disease and toxic shock syndrome...