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...IGNACIO MORONES PRIETO, 57, is the Minister of Public Health and Welfare. A man with powerful friends in the government, Morones Prieto has reaped praise for his all-out campaign against malaria and for his smooth handling of the most comprehensive welfare-state program...
...Guadalcanal Barney holds a strong point alone against hundreds of Japanese, kills 22 of them and saves the life of a wounded buddy. His reward: the Silver Star and a dose of malignant malaria. For the skull-shattering headaches that accompany the first bouts of fever, medics prescribe morphine; and by the time the malaria appears to be gone, so is Barney's moral resistance. He is an abject addict. But why? The script states explicitly the physiological basis of his addiction, but about the psychological causes it can only hem and haw: "The roar of the crowd...
...serious mental illnesses and some other diseases. (One notable exception: patients who have had schizophrenia a long time.) Most promising positive use: the reaction seems to be clearest in children, whose emotional disorders are especially hard to diagnose-and who are not likely to have such misleading conditions as malaria or pregnancy. In any patient, old or young, other techniques must be used for diagnosis...
...Eight infectious diseases reported to the Communicable Disease Center declined in 1956, while six became more frequent, the U.S. Public Health Service reported. Down were polio, with 15,400 cases (a 47% drop below 1955's total of 29,270), brucellosis, diphtheria, hepatitis, malaria, meningococcal infections, typhus and rabies in animals. There were increases in typhoid, anthrax, encephalitis, measles, rabies in man, and psittacosis (up 82%, from 278 cases to 508, almost entirely among parakeet lovers...
...come out of Rockefellers), promptly exploited the success in the South and sent out task forces against hookworm all over the world. New successes taught new methods of disease control, which the foundation flung into battle against yellow fever in Ecuador, scarlet fever in Rumania, dengue fever in Guam, malaria in Nicaragua. In Manhattan a Rockefeller scientist named Dr. Wilbur Sawyer developed the world's first effective anti-yellow-fever vaccine...