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Toward other neighbors Perón's weapons were different, his aims the same. A month and a half ago Argentina abruptly closed the Paraguayan frontier. The reason given: a yellow-fever outbreak in Paraguay. It turned out to be malaria, but Paraguayans got the point, agreed to a customs union with Argentina. Bolivia was already on the hook: the Perón-minded Villarroel government felt strong enough to crack down on the Democratic Front opposition, jail leaders and handcuff the press. Chile, with a long Argentine frontier, read that Perón had come...
Louis F. Fieser, Sheldon Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, disclosed late last week the discovery of several new organic compounds which are more potent in the prevention of malaria than either stabrine or quinine and which show permanent curative effects. Speaking at the dedication of the Kresege-Hooker Scientific Library at Wayne University in Detroit, Fieser asserted that the new compounds constitute a new departure in the field of chemotherapy...
After spending four years and $7,000,000, OSRD researchers half-hoped, half-believed that they had found a permanent cure for relapsing malaria (which plagues almost half the world's population). Its name: SN 13,276. Last week in Atlantic City, Squibb Institute's Dr. James A. Shannon released some promising facts about this newest member of the eight-aminoquinoline group (to which belongs Plasmochin, antimalarial drug developed by German scientists in 1926, later discarded as ineffective and too toxic...
...drug is so powerful that a two-week course of treatments cures the disease permanently, thus making possible coordinated, community-wide drives to stamp out malaria...
Bill Goddard, 32, sapper in the Royal Engineers, weighed only 57 Ibs. when found in a Formosa prison camp last September. When he arrived at Vancouver's Military Hospital three months later he weighed in at 66. His skeletal body was racked with beriberi, pellagra, dysentery, malaria and pneumonia...