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China needs at least 200,000 doctors, and has fewer than 12,000-one doctor for every 37,500 people (the U.S. has one for 1,200). Ravaged by tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, kala azar (a deadly parasitic disease), typhus, plague, venereal disease, China has a death rate estimated at three to four times that ofthe U.S. (In Shanghai, a sixth of the population have T.B.; an eighth,venereal diseases.) Among the nation's major postwar medical problems: 32,000,000 opium addicts...
After World War I, the pale horse of pestilence galloped unchecked across Europe. How many people died from influenza, typhus, relapsing fever, malaria, typhoid and smallpox was never recorded, but flu alone killed an estimated 16,000,000. After World War II, the pale horse and his rider never really got started. Health authorities think it was partly a matter of luck. But Europe's, and Asia's, amazing escape from pestilence was also partly due to UNRRA. The story of its great work was told last week in a final bulletin by its health division...
...Greece, where malaria has been endemic for centuries, a DDT campaign against mosquitoes (including the spraying of 300,000 houses and stables) gave protection to 80% of the population...
...Malaria's cause is known: a tiny animalcule injected by a mosquito's sting. But no one knows what makes the disease so hard to cure permanently. Parasitologists think it is because the malaria bug knows how to hide: even when the bloodstream has been cleared by an antimalarial drug, the organism may remain in body tissues, lying low for new attacks. If scientists could grow the parasite in a test tube and find out exactly what makes it tick, they would be well along toward wiping out malaria...
...week a team of Harvard Medical School researchers reported that they were getting warm. In a paper so important that it got a prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, they announced that they had bred in a test tube two types of animalcules. One causes malaria in monkeys and the other (Plasmodium vivax...