During the 2009 investigation, the
Gorgas Memorial Institute analyzed 4,852 samples from persons in Panama with suspected acute dengue; 1,667 (34.4%) of the samples were dengue-negative.
2015
Gorgas Competition: The 2015 Competition was excellent with entrants from schools across Alabama.
Part one deals with Malaria--Manson and Ross (12 chapters) and Part two with Yellow fever--Reed and
Gorgas (7 chapters).
Impressed about what
Gorgas had achieved in the Panama Canal he was invited to advise on the high death rates from disease on the South African gold mines.
Gorgas killed mosquito larvae by oil-spraying ditches and draining as much standing water as possible.
Their fall senior concert in November, "A Building Alive," included works inspired by Merce Cunningham and John Cage, felines, geometry, and robots.--Elizabeth
Gorgas Professional Dance Prog.
Previously managed by Hand, the crew's flaws are destructive under his successor, the self-absorbed First Officer
Gorgas. Two of the four 'new' Farnsworth engines malfunction and there is barely enough time, material or people to repair them.
The eyes of Major
Gorgas were on the arriving steamers that daily disgorged hundreds of new engineers, carpenters, laborers, mechanics, administrators, clerks, photographers, and journalists.
The making of "Waterproot Kids" a video designed to show parents how to teach their children to swim, could have been movie in itself Swim instructor Gaylene Anderson, underwater photographer Thomas
Gorgas and video producer Paul Sosso met only a year ago, but the three partners have already developed a product that ms been licensed by California-based swimming equipment distributor FINIS Inc.
Gorgas went on to eradicate the mosquito vector on Cuba and in Panama.
Out of print since 1952, Ploughshares into Swords: Josiah
Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance has been reissued in Texas A&M's Military History Series.
We thank the personnel of the Panama Ministry of Health for help with the epidemiologic surveillance program, all the personnel of the
Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies Department of Research in Virology and Biotechnology for continuous technical support, and Publio Gonzalez for his assistance with the maps and graphics.
Gorgas and JAS students will have a poster session prior to the banquet on Thursday evening.
Gorgas had beaten yellow fever in Cuba by] battling Aedes aegypti (AY-dees ee-JIP-tee), the mosquito that carried the disease.
Mark Jones,
Gorgas teacher fellow, is working on an AMSTI affiliate status.
