Word: guatemala
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...system of treatment has been evolved by members of the Department of Tropical Medicine which it is believed can entirely eradicate Onchoceren, a serious parasitical infection now prevalent among workers on Guatemala coffee plantations, in the course of five or six years of a properly conducted campaign it was announced recently at the University Medical School...
...Strong, who conducted a survey of the Republic of Liberia two years ago where he observed a similar disease, was selected to head the Guatemala expedition with the backing of the Department of Tropical Medicine and the medical department of the United Fruit Company. It was discovered that infection was transmitted by several varieties of coffee flies that were carriers of the adult Onchecereae, present in the tuners found on the heads of the natives. Once injected by the bite of the fly, the parasites multiply and the young "microfilariae" circulate through the lymphatics, causing irritation, particularly...
...government of Guatemala is at present too poor to finance an effective program for eliminating the disease. The most probable source of aid would seem to lie in some American foundation which could endow a thorough campaign of operation and isolation which alone can effect solution of the problem...
...list of countries from which students have come to Harvard this year is as follows: Abyssinia, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, India, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Philippine Islands, Poland, Porto Rico, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, and Venezuela...
Like two red-headed buzzards sitting on a fence, the volcanoes Acatenango and Fuego perch not far from Guatemala City and wait for a catastrophe. Twice earthquakes have destroyed the city; each time Acatenango and Fuego have picked it clean. The old capital of Antigua Guatemala has its skeletons of whitened ruins. Last week a series of earthquakes shook the country. Panes rattled, pictures fell, walls cracked. Guatemalans, remembering the destruction of their capital in 1918, fell on their knees and prayed. The shocks continued, grew more violent. The two volcanoes reared their heads. Fire, ashes, lava spouted from their...