Background
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to disease
Richard Fiennes is a veteran of 20 years scientific service in Africa but what he has to say in “Man, Nature and Disease” could equally well apply to many parts of the tropical Pacific.
Malaria still claims more lives annually than any other disease and despite modern drugs is still an ever-present possibility in the SW Pacific. Filaria, likewise, is endemic in Polynesia and other parts of the Pacific. These and parasitic diseases and such great scourges as leprosy and typhus, he discusses at length, shows how they originate in nature and how they are transmitted to animal and human life. Signet Science Library; 85 cents.