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Every time the cause of some baffling infection is found or a new wonder drug is discovered, the news is hailed as another step toward a hygienic utopia in which disease and premature death will have no place. Not so fast, says one of the world's top authorities...
Remove the Handle. Modern science's role in defeating infectious diseases has been greatly exaggerated, says Researcher Dubos. Many of the most terrifying-leprosy, plague, typhus-had all but disappeared from Europe before serums, vaccines and drugs were developed to combat them. Other Dubos debunkings:
Last week, French army headquarters in Algiers belatedly announced that six weeks ago one of its patrols had stumbled upon the bullet-ridden body of Olivier Dubos. In Paris bitter newspaper articles charged that Dubos had been killed because he was "too much loved in Moslem homes." But in a...
When things calmed down at Kasba Mechta, Dubos sought new risks. Signing up for an additional year's service, he voluntarily took command of a small forest encampment at El Hourane, a job that no one else wanted because the duty was both dull and dangerous. Early in February...
At first the letters that Dubos wrote his family-which rebel agents smuggled into the French mails-were cheerful, and expressed the hope that the F.L.N. would ultimately exchange him for one of its own men held by the French. But then came a letter that hinted at something else...