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Before leaving on Government service overseas in Africa, the thought occurred to me that, with considerable airplane travel necessary, an accident or other causes, such as black-water fever and malaria which break down the blood, might require a blood transfusion in places where laboratory facilities or other modern means were lacking. I therefore had my blood typed by the local hospital and carried the data in my passport. . . . My doctor's letter read...
...best way to fight malaria is not by drugs but by fighting mosquitoes. That is what Dr. Lowell T. Coggeshall of the University of Michigan concludes after helping Pan American Airways throw an airline across Africa in 60 days for the U.S. Army (TIME, Nov. 9)-a conclusion not new, but often forgotten under war conditions. Dr. Coggeshall's evidence, in the current War Medicine...
...Neither quinine nor atabrine will suppress all infections. Among British forces near Panafrica's stations, about 30% of those on 0.3 gr. of quinine hydrochloride daily, and 23% of those taking 0.4 gr. of atabrine dihydrochloride weekly, developed clinical malaria (incidentally, "no toxic effects from atabrine were noted"). Panafrica had to abandon Accra, a bad malaria spot on Africa's Gold Coast. In spite of quinine, in about two months 46 out of 284 men occupying partially screened quarters had malaria...
...After Panafrica's mosquito-proofing be gan, malaria was almost completely routed. In September 1942, only one man in 1,400 acquired malaria at an air station; in October, only three out of 1,820. Most striking lesson was the experience of two groups in the same compound less than a quarter of a mile apart. One had almost no protection against mosquitoes and depended on quinine. The other group had quarters "which were well mosquito-proofed. . . . Their quarters were also sprayed with an insecticide each evening and each man donned long trousers, a long-sleeved shirt and mosquito...
Mostly by "Hookum." In the months that followed Kehoe hardened himself to do five miles a day in the incredibly difficult region. He fought off attacks of malaria and dysentery, made friends with the main Naga tribes. He hiked 500 miles before getting his first two outposts established; after that it was easier...