Word: hookwormed
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Most of them were healthy and spring-legged, though lean; but some had malaria, tuberculosis or hookworm. In the clearing they were met and saluted by members of a four-nation supervisory team-Siam, Burma. Nationalist China, the U.S. After medical examination, the first lot of evacuees were flown to Formosa...
Like most Polynesians, the Cook Islanders have a high tuberculosis rate, but Dr. Davis has found that they seem to have developed a resistance like that of Europeans: they form scar tissue and recover. They also have hookworm, and filariasis (the "mumu" of South Pacific G.I.s), which may reach the stage of elephantiasis...
...most Egyptians-live in mud huts, dress in rags and eat the bread of the poor (Egypt has two kinds of bread; the rich, white variety is available only to the rich). Three out of four own less than an acre of land, two out of three suffer from hookworm and malaria, nine out of ten are partially blind from the effects of bad water and undernourishment. Near the palace gates, beggars lay in the hot sun, too weak, sick, or hopeless to drag themselves into the shade...
Search & Cure. John D. was certain of at least one thing about the "difficult art of giving." Said he: "The best philanthropy is a search for cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source." The first major evil that his trustees sought to cure: hookworm in the South...
...those days, hookworm was afflicting millions of people. The Rockefeller trustees began their fight with a gigantic survey, pinpointing the towns and counties where the disease was at its worst. Then, in addition to distributing medicine, they set off a program of prevention. They held thousands of public meetings, distributed millions of pamphlets, organized teachers to give special instruction. Gradually, people learned general hygiene, and in ten years the hookworm was at last being brought under control...