{"quotes":[{"text":"Fortunately for the cause of science and of humanity, we had as Governor-General of Cuba at that time General Leonard Wood, of the United States Army. General Wood had been educated as a physician, and had a very proper idea of the great advantages which would accrue to the world if we could establish the fact that yellow fever was conveyed by the mosquito, and his medical training made him a very competent judge as to the steps necessary to establish such fact. General Wood during the whole course of the investigations took the greatest interest in the experiments, and assisted the Board in every way he could.","author":"William Crawford Gorgas","tags":["cooperation","disease-control","general-leonard-wood","heroes","leadership","leonard-wood","malaria-eradication","medical-discoveries","medical-history","mosquitoes","public-health","quality-of-life","supporting-others","teamwork","u-s-army","vector-control","vision","yellow-fever","yellow-fever-eradication"],"id":37843,"author_id":"William+Crawford+Gorgas"},{"text":"Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["2015","africa","disease-control","ebola","epidemics","irony","lessons-learned","medical-research","medical-treatment","public-health","success"],"id":84777,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["cause","cause-and-effect","cause-problems","change","changed","disease","disease-control","disease-prevention","electromagnetic","electromagnetic-radiation","electromagnetic-wave","environment","environmental","human","humanity","humans","illness","increase","level","levels","natural","natural-world","radiation","radiation-effects"],"id":96907,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["aedes-aegypti","anopheles-gambiae","common-sense","contagious-diseases","containment","disease-control","ebola","ebola-spread","effectiveness","eradication","health","malaria-spread","public-health","travel","yellow-fever","yellow-fever-spread","zika-spread"],"id":118864,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"It’s not that easy living with malaria. The reality of the high annual death toll should make that very obvious.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","anopheles-gambiae","disease-control","malaria","malaria-eradication","public-health"],"id":133126,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"Eradication represents a complete change of philosophy and a recognition of the equal rights of all citizens to protection from infection, no matter where they live. Eradication, by its very nature, is public health with a conscience. The public health control officer can sleep tranquilly, salving his conscience with the thought that most of his responsibility has been discharged – that he did not have enough money to do any more. The eradicator knows that his success is not measured by what has been accomplished but, rather, is the extent of his failure indicated by what remains to be done. He must stamp out the last embers of infection in his jurisdiction. His slogan must be: ANY IS TOO MANY.","author":"Fred Lowe Soper","tags":["accomplishment","completion","conscience","disease-control","equal-rights","eradication","failure","goal-setting","health","infection","leadership","malaria","malaria-eradication","medicine","morality","perfection","protection","public-health","quality-of-life","success","yellow-fever-eradication"],"id":167331,"author_id":"Fred+Lowe+Soper"},{"text":"The entire world has benefited and prospered since the decisive defeat of Yellow Fever, an unconventional and far-reaching military victory derived from the field medical discoveries of U.S. Army Major Dr. Walter Reed, designed and carried out by U.S. Army Major Dr. William Gorgas with the overall support under the command of U.S. Army General Leonard Wood.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["disease-control","heroes","humanitarian-intervention","leonard-wood","medical-history","mosquitoes","public-health","success","u-s-army","vector-control","walter-reed","wliiam-crawford-gorgas","yellow-fever-eradication"],"id":175250,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible.","author":"Thomas W. Martin","tags":["achievers","advancement","character","disease-control","heroic","inspired-living","leadership","malaria-eradication","medicine"],"id":183628,"author_id":"Thomas+W.+Martin"},{"text":"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.","author":"T.K. Naliaka","tags":["africa","anopheles-gambiae","disease-control","fred-lowe-soper","leadership","malaria","malaria-eradication","mosquitoes","public-health","success","william-crawford-gorgas"],"id":199263,"author_id":"T.K.+Naliaka"},{"text":"But such is the nature of man that as soon as you begin to force him to do a thing, from that moment he begins to seek ways by which he can avoid doing the thing you are trying to force upon him. A man with malaria parasites in his blood is a danger to his companions. To kill all the parasites, he was then required to continue doses of quinine a week or ten days after his fever. When the convalescing men were given their daily dose of quinine they would manage to throw their tablets out of the dispensary window. The old turkey-gobbler pet of the hospital gobbled up all the tablets he could find. He became so dissipated he finally developed a species of blindness caused by too much quinine. I cannot vouch for this, but I was often twitted with this story as an illustration of how the men were treating prophylactic quinine.","author":"William Crawford Gorgas","tags":["anopheles-gambiae","avoidance","compulsion","cooperation","disease-control","human-nature","malaria","malaria-eradication","medicine","panama-canal","public-health","quinine","treatment-failure","turkeys","unintended-consequences"],"id":230483,"author_id":"William+Crawford+Gorgas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}