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...institute hopes to provide the village health workers with the skills of "barefoot doctors, "Joseph said. "Simple activities make a lot of difference in the rural regions," where many deaths are caused by malnutrition, malaria, diabetes and diarrhea, he said. Drought Stricken...
...William Miller as Federal Reserve chairman and promoted James Mclntyre Jr. to Director of the Office of Management and Budget (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). But Carter spent most of his time getting ready for his trip. Like any other tourist headed for Asia, he took pills to ward off malaria and was inoculated against cholera and typhoid. He pored over thick briefing books. He packed a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu holy book...
...some extent, malaria's comeback results from overconfidence bred by the success of antimalaria drives in the 1950s and 1960s. From the southern U.S. to northern Argentina in South America, the Pan American Health Organization (a branch of WHO), UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development had cooperated with national governments in financing a massive extermination operation. In hundreds of yellow-painted Jeeps and trucks equipped with tanks of insecticides, crews traveled everywhere, spraying pools of stagnant water, obvious breeding areas for mosquitoes. Helmeted personnel entered millions of houses and shacks to spray the walls, on the rationale...
...then, lulled into a false sense of security and hindered by oil price hikes, many governments cut back on their eradication programs. At the same time, Anopheles mosquitoes became increasingly resistant to DDT. As the mosquitoes swarmed, malaria made its maleficent comeback...
...effort to stem the tide of new cases, health authorities are now using more of other insecticides, such as Malathion and propoxur to kill DDT-resistant mosquitoes-but the insects are already showing signs of developing resistance to the newer chemicals. Thus the most practical response now to malaria's new challenge, says Dr. Robert Kaiser, of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, is a return to the pre-DDT approaches: draining mosquito-breeding areas and monitoring water supplies. In addition, several drugs can be used both to prevent and to treat human malarial infections. Says Kaiser...