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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100550015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: July 20, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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JULY 20, 1964
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NEW ENEMY IN VIETNAM:I- U. S. soldiers in Vietnam face still
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The new strain of- the-mosquito -transmitted disease is reported by
University of Michigan, medicinal 'chemist Joseph H. Burckhalter,
who invented amodiaquin, one of the major anti-malarial drugs. Dr. ':.
Burckhalter says that most of the drugs now used to fight malaria
are no longer effective against its deadliest form. Three years ago,
Dr. ,c notes, the control of malaria was well in hand. But
since then certain deadly strains of-the disease jiave become resist-
ant to the drugs:used to combat -them. In only three years these re-
sistant strains have traveled -from South America to Africa and Asia
and now particularly threaten Malayaiand' Vietnam. Recently when
malaria struck a Cambodian villager+,$; third of the victims did not
respond to any of the existing malaria dx`(igs. "Three years ago it is
almost certain that all would have responded," Dr. Burckhalter says.
As a result, physicians are being.forced'to resort to the use of qui-
nine, the classical cure which was abandoned 25 years ago because
of its toxicity. The U. S. Armed Forces are alarmed over the threat
this development poses to military operations in Southeast Asia.
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