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Overshadowing all WHO's activities against particular diseases, reported Director General Marcolino Gomes Candau, is the antimalaria campaign-"the most gigantic scheme ever undertaken for the benefit of man." When WHO began its war on malaria seven years ago, 1.4 billion people (half the world's total) lived in malarious areas, and 200 million had the disease. Now, Dr. Candau can proudly report, malaria has been wiped out from areas containing 317 million people...
...Amazon's rubber and the Rio Doce's iron and mica, SESP is run jointly by the Brazilian Ministry of Health & Education and the U.S. State Department's Institute of Inter-American Affairs. It is jointly headed by Brazil's curt, round-faced Dr. Marcolino Candau, 37, a Johns-Hopkins-trained carioca, and by IIAA's quietly competent Dr. Eugene Campbell, 41, also a Hopkins product...
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