The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly 'cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

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