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Word: nagana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
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...disease, instead of waiting for 'disease to attack. He was enthusiastic about the work of the Rockefeller Foundation in attacking the sources of the hookworm disease, yellow fever and malaria. He told how sleeping sickness had been eliminated in Uganda by control of the tsetse fly, and how nagana, or Texas fever, had been similarly controlled in Zululand, when it was found that the same fly was the carrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Savants | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

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