Word: hookwormed
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...spoke gratefully of some $80 million worth of dollar aid given his assassinated predecessor, U.S.-favored Carlos Castillo Armas. With about $35 million of the aid funds still unspent, Ydigoras said that the only additional aid he might need would be a relatively modest sum for fighting malaria and hookworm disease. He told State Department Inter-American Affairs Chief Roy Rubottom that he planned to spend money on agriculture, rural resettlement and roadbuilding. With World Bank President Eugene...
...Peabody) helped set up state departments of education in the South, opened schools to train teachers, was partly responsible for the Southern Education Board, which sparked a national crusade to improve and finance Southern schools. The Rockefeller Foundation, partly following the Peabody lead, plunged into medical research, virtually eliminated hookworm from the South, wrestled with diseases all over the world. Andrew Carnegie's money sprinkled public libraries across the nation, set up pensions for college teachers and, by supporting the famed Flexner report on U.S. and Canadian medical schools, revolutionized medical education in America. Meanwhile, the smaller...
Twin Peaks. Under such fundamental forethought, the big philanthropy proliferated around the U.S. and the world. One ten-year massive demonstration by doctors and mobile dispensaries in the South, and hookworm was gone. The Rockefeller Foundation, finally chartered by New York State in 1913 (the U.S. Congress denied a federal charter, believing that no good could come out of Rockefellers), promptly exploited the success in the South and sent out task forces against hookworm all over the world. New successes taught new methods of disease control, which the foundation flung into battle against yellow fever in Ecuador, scarlet fever...
...Parasitic diseases once thought peculiar to the south and the tropics are spreading north, reported the University of Illinois' Drs. Carroll L. Birch and Basil P. Anast. Mass migrations from south to north have carried with them hookworm, whipworm and ascarides. Immigrants in the thousands from the West Indies have brought the parasites of schistosomiasis and filariasis. Hookworm, whipworm and Schistosoma mansoni began to appear in northern cities only in 1950; years ahead of them were the amoeba (a cause of chronic dysentery) and pinworm. Estimated schistosomiasis cases in New York City, 70,000; in Chicago...
...example, the support of economic research makes it possible for both business leadership and Government to ... sustain a high and steady national production, the benefit to the public purse is obvious. It is even more obvious that the virtual elimination of yellow fever, the sharp reduction in malaria and hookworm, have direct economic benefits . . . The Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board...