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Collins fought to outlaw slot machines, for higher state taxes on dog-track gambling, for higher educational standards and better mosquito control to hold down that old Southern malady, malaria. "I can hardly remember a summer when I wasn't sick with the chills and fever of malaria," Collins said last week. "I used to drink Dr. Groves's tasteless chill tonic by the barrel. I guess it was all that pulled a lot of us through. Well, when I became a legislator I got a chance to work for remedial legislation. Now there are doctors who have...
...unlike most valuables, rare stamps cannot be successfully forged or price-rigged. Stamp lovers are the world's biggest collecting fraternity; with more than 150,000 different kinds of stamps to choose from, most are philatelists for fun, and for life. "Stamp collecting," says Bernard Harmer, "is like malaria. Once you've had it, you never get it out of your system...
...word meant "I don't understand you." After the near shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, the Endeavour was badly in need of a drydock, and Cook put in at Jakarta (then Batavia). The two-month stay salvaged the ship but wrecked the crew. Seven men died of malaria and dysentery in the fetid port, another two dozen on shipboard as the Endeavour limped her solitary way around South Africa, back to the Thames and into the history books...
...Children's Fund (UNICEF) in 1954 helped organize mass health campaigns that examined 400 million children in 88 countries, vaccinating 14 million against TB, treating 2,000,000 for yaws and other skin diseases, 9,000,000 against malaria and typhus...
...World Health Organization has helped the government wipe out yaws in Haiti, where it affected a third of the rural population in 1950. It expects to wipe out malaria in Afghanistan this year...