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...rest from a bank loan). Meantime, he had established a solid record of helping his race, and some white folks too. During the depressed 19305, Dr. Starke formed a team with Seminole County's overworked public-health nurse, Mrs. Frances McDougal. Together they toured the county, treating hookworm and giving inoculations. Though he never offered his services to whites ("I didn't want to get into trouble"), many asked his help and got it free. In one depression year, Mrs. McDougal reckoned, Dr. Starke did $27,000 worth of charity work; he got barely $2,000 a year...
...doctors can cure hookworm anemia, suppress malaria and relieve leprosy. But most of the sick in Alamadi need food more than medicine. It would take much more than a weekly bus to cure that...
...town's 550 families were getting their drinking water from the silt-laden Tocantins River. Their only plumbing facilities were the jungle bush behind their rickety shacks. Cametá had no doctor, and there is no record of how many Cametenses died each year from dysentery, hookworm, malaria and typhus, but these and other communicable diseases accounted for 55% of all deaths in the Amazon region which includes Camet...
...antiseptic-smelling medical center, a staff of 14 SESP doctors and technicians are working on a program that has already rid the town of malaria, of nearly all hookworm, and cut the remaining cases of amoebic dysentery...
...there was nothing new for schistosomiasis, which attacks the liver and intestines of 114,000,000 people a year, mostly in the tropics. Nor were there any new drugs for the most widespread worm disease, hookworm, which afflicts 457,000,000 people in the world, including 1,000,000 in the U.S. There is, said Dr. Stoll, no ideal drug for any worm disease, and meanwhile the worm population is keeping pace with the human...