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Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization
Airmen unload boxes of MREs (Meals Ready To Eat) for victims of Hurricane Marilyn. The hurricane hit the US Virgin Islands in September 1995. The role of military organizations in operations other than war is long and distinguished. As the issue of homeland defense evolves, it is likely that the mission of both Active and Reserve Component units will encompass some of the new challenges the Uni...
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The US Army Yellow Fever Board was established to discover the etiology of yellow fever. In Cuba in 1900, the Board completed a series of classic experiments that showed the role of the mosquito in yellow fever transmission. Attending Private John Kissinger, who volunteered to be infected with yellow fever, are (from left) Major William C. Gorgas, the sanitation officer for Havana who would go ...
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The medical and psychological effects of deployment do not necessarily dissipate once the deployment is over. Service members and their families make significant, though incompletely understood, sacrifices during deployment and may need to make major readjustments after the deployment ends. This is not a new phenomenon, but it has been much better illuminated in the wake of the Persian Gulf War.
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Before these Marines arrived in Southwest Asia for the Persian Gulf War, an impressive amount of planning and coordination had been done by preventive medicine professionals on their behalf. The health threats facing these Marines had been assessed, plans had been made to counteract those threats, and systems had been put into place to monitor their health status during and after the deployment...
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Soldiers in the South Pacific theater during World War II get their daily dose of atabrine, described by the artist as “the famous new malaria medicine.” Atabrine was used by the allies because Japan controlled the sources of quinine, the main malaria treatment of the pre-atabrine era. The artist also mentioned that “these pills turn you about the color of a lemon.” It was the control of malari...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1931
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.21.9.1078-b