Show World Nations Battle Insects Wage Unceasing Fight To Safeguard Health NEW YORK At At New York harbor har har- bor jor the other day a ship came in from the Mediterranean Amid the tears and the laughter and the confetti there were a few wry faces and sore left arms Those faces aces were wry and the arms sore because a couple of hours earlier while the ship was still out at sea a ayoung ayoung ayoung young doctor in the blues of the United States health service had boarded her and checked every passengers passenger's typhoid immunization And those who didn't have the vaccine got it right there before they came into the harbor courtesy 1 CO 44 V UI ue J d C ing down the gangplank then they weren't feeling so hot But million mil lion Americans were protected against the devastating death and damage of a typhoid epidemic Radio Gave Report How did they know that day at atthe atthe atthe the port of New York York and and for that matter at every port and airport inthe in inthe inthe the United States that States that there was wasa a need to watch out for typhoid from the Mediterranean area They knew because early that mornin morning doctors in every port and airport turned on their short wave radios at the required hour and heard a voice say first in French and then in English Russian and Spanish This is the intelligence service of the world health organization organization organization calling all ports airports and ships at sea Three cases of the plague were reported this morning at Hong Kong seven cases of cholera cholera cholera chol chol- era in Egypt and typhoid in the Mediterranean area The world health organization Is Isone Isone isone one of the agencies of United Nations Nations Nations Na Na- and in its intelligence service every everyone one of the UN members and 11 non member non states operate co-operate to carry carryon on a unique kind of espionage spying on bacilli Started In 1946 19 The world health organization began began began be be- gan to build its epidemiological inI intelligence intelligence in in- service that service that is the official official I cial name name name-in in 1946 almost as soon as it was organized Some of the functions were taken over from the League of Nations Others were I co coordinated with existing regional operations such as the work of the pan-American pan health institute in which the nations of the western hemisphere had been operating co-operating ter than a n good mixture Many against disease I By Jan 1 1949 it was all wrapped I up Into one g global 1 lob o b a 1 lOP operation era t ion And today WHO I agents working in operation co-operation I with the governments and especially especial especial- ly the public health services of the countries in which they are stationed sta sta- sta- sta are on the job at all times tunes tracking down the five worst enemies enemies ene ene- mies of ot mankind cholera smallpox small small- I po pox yellow fever typhoid and the i plague |