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To the Editor: Hotez et al. (Aug. 19 issue)¹ suggest waiting for socioeconomic reforms to eliminate hookworm infection, a condition that afflicts 740 million persons. However, chronic anemia is an enormous handicap and limits the prospects of a better future. We should remember that the fight against hookworm infection began before the economic development of the southern United States in a large-scale philanthropic effort supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1902, Dr. Charles Stiles stated that the poor whites of the South, long considered lazy, were simply enervated by hookworm infection and that "thymol and Epsom salts [magnesium sulfate] would . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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