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“He was one of life’s great helpers, for he cleaned up foul places and made them sweet.”

Character Medicine Legacy Leadership Characteristics Public Health Mosquitoes Malaria Disease Control Yellow Fever Accomplish Great Things Malaria Eradication Humility In Greatness Yellow Fever Eradication William Crawford Gorgas

Book:Doctor William Crawford Gorgas Of Alabama And The Panama Canal

Source: Doctor William Crawford Gorgas Of Alabama And The Panama Canal

“Aedes aegypti, which transmits yellow fever, is one of the feeblest species in its ability for flight and it is at once blown away and destroyed when it gets into a breeze. It therefore seldom wanders from the house in which it was bred.”

Public Health Mosquitoes Disease Control Yellow Fever Eradication Yellow Fever Eradication Aedes Aegypti Mosquito Eradication Vector Control Chikungunya Dengue Zika William Crawford Gorgas Tiger Mosquito

Book:Sanitation in Panama

Source: Sanitation in Panama

“Over a century now after Dr. William Gorgas wiped Yellow Fever out of Havana and Panama, and by that out of an entire continent, and more than half a century after Fred Lowe Soper led the eradication of Anopheles gambiae out of Northeast Brazil, their names are unknown, their carefully-detailed, boots-on-the-ground methods that they described in detail to leave expressly for generations to study and learn from to apply to malaria - and specifically they both had the desire for the destruction of malaria in Africa on their minds - is unread. The mistakes they warned about, the assumptions that they discovered to be useless and ineffectual in the field against disease-bearing mosquitoes are repeated today, while what Gorgas and Soper found to be effective and efficient in real-life conditions are routinely ignored or unknown, avoidable errors blithely doomed to be repeated thanks to modern ignorance of their incredibly important and transformative historical successes in public health. In the battles against malaria, to be ignorant of Gorgas’ and Soper's work in eradicating the mosquito that carries it is to be hobbled by the lack of hard-earned field knowledge, practical and effective discoveries that remain completely relevant and critical to success in eradicating malaria today.”

Success Leadership Africa Public Health Mosquitoes Malaria Disease Control Malaria Eradication Anopheles Gambiae William Crawford Gorgas Fred Lowe Soper

Author:T.K. Naliaka