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In New Delhi, newspapers wrote of the "ill winds" battering the Prime Minister. To the east, in the city of Patna, an angry crowd interrupted one of her speeches, chanting, "Indira Gandhi, go back!" At the southern tip of the subcontinent, near the coastal city of Trivandrum, the signs posted...
Still, WHO suffered many setbacks. After a major outbreak in India as late as 1974, some people despaired of ever freeing the subcontinent of smallpox. In East Africa last August, Henderson and his colleagues thought that they had tracked down the last few pockets of the disease in isolated areas...
Antibiotics and vaccines have reduced many an ancient malady to little more than a memory. Onetime killers like measles and chicken pox have been downgraded into childhood diseases capable of producing lasting immunities in their survivors. Inoculation and modern sanitation have all but eliminated smallpox. Cholera remains endemic only on...
Muktananda, 68, known to his followers as Baba (father), is America's newest fashionable guru. With 62 centers in North America besides the Catskills ashram, he has attracted more than 20,000 devotees since his arrival in 1974. He has also received respectful visits from such celebrities as California...
(6 of 10) spraying of mosquito breeding areas slashed the incidence of malaria in Italy and other Mediterranean lands and made inroads against the disease on the Indian subcontinent.