Medicine: New Beginning

Doctors well remember that hunger and homelessness bred worldwide infections after World War I. They are puzzled that, though present wretchedness is far more widespread, the world continues free of serious epidemics. The fact is fortunate. The old League of Nations' Health Organization, now reduced to a staff of eleven, is still in Geneva putting out its Bulletin. But with so few men, it is no longer able to carry out its most valuable function: trouble-shooting in any nation where a plague strikes.

At the instigation of China and Brazil (and of ex-U.S. Secretary of State Hull), 17 nations have approved the...

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