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Today six hospitals provide free medical service to all of the sheikdom's 140,000 citizens, and malaria, once the scourge of Bahrein, is gone. Water from artesian wells flows into many Bahrein homes, and a dial telephone system links the archipelago's principal towns. And, at Belgrave's insistence, the accumulated reserve funds have been carefully invested abroad so that even when Bahrein's oil finally dries up−her proven reserves are only 200 million barrels v. Saudi Arabia's 35 billion barrels−Bahreinis should still enjoy a fair degree of prosperity...
...work as a mechanic on a water research project at the Port Hueneme naval base. That night he had chills and fever and diarrhea, so he took the following day off and went to see an osteopath. He got a shot of penicillin, quinine for a suspected recurrence of malaria, and aspirin for the aches and pains−which were worst in his right groin. There was a slight lump there, too. Two days later, with Sakacs' symptoms getting worse, he was taken to Corona Naval Hospital southeast of Los Angeles...
...Communist, mercurial, spaniel-eyed Marshall is no Briton either. Of Spanish origin, his family migrated from the Levant to Singapore, where his father Anglicized the Hebrew family name, Mashal (meaning parable). Born in 1908, young Marshall went to Singapore's St. David's School, suffered malaria and tuberculosis, sold automobiles, went to London to study law, and set up as a barrister in Singapore. A member of the Singapore Volunteer Force in World War II, he was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942; his fellow prisoners remember his determined cheeriness in a Hokkaido camp in which...
...until the Yanks came. Midway through World War II, General Eisenhower's forces crossed from North Africa to occupy the bald, sirocco-scorched island of Sardinia (pop. 950,000) as a bomber base for the invasion of southern France. They ran up against the malaria that infested the coastal marshes and that throughout history has kept invaders back and the islanders down. Thereafter, by one of the most intensive campaigns ever waged against malaria, U.S. and Italian DDT teams banished the anopheles mosquito that had helped stunt the development of a people long accounted the smallest of Italians. Since...
...World War II Coggeshall put his earlier research to practical use by helping fight malaria at African air bases. Then he moved on to the Navy as consultant, fought a similar campaign against mumu, the filariasis that South Pacific G.I.s dreaded because they feared it would lead to elephantiasis or perhaps sterility. Coggeshall boosted their morale by showing that it did not. Since 1947 he has been head of the University of Chicago's division of the biological sciences, which embraces a medical school and nine hospitals...