Overview :It was not to be. The mosquito has become resistant to DDT; malaria is on the rise; although tapeworms rarely turn up any longer in the most... Read More
Overview :Why, Robert S. Desowitz asks, has biotechnical research on malaria produced so little when it had promised so much? An expert in tropical di... Read More
Overview :Dr. Desowitz describes the revolutionary discoveries made by Jenner, Pasteur, Metchnikoff, and Ehrlich and what we know about immunology tod... Read More
Overview :Past--and present--tell us that tropical diseases are as American as the heart attack; yellow fever lived happily for centuries in Philadelp... Read More
Overview :Twenty Years ago the world slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at t... Read More
Overview :Twenty years ago the world slept, confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. Our wake-up call sounded at t... Read More