Word: gabaldon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign got started almost by chance. In the spring of 1945, Venezuela's chief malaria expert, young Arnoldo Gabaldon, was in Washington for a Pan-American health conference. At lunch one day, Dr. James Stevens (now dean of the Harvard School of Public Health) told him what DDT was doing for the Army in the southwest Pacific. Gabaldon was "terribly excited...