Malaria as a Pediatric Diagnostic Problem in the United States

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-471
Author(s):  
SAMUEL E. SCOTT
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Air Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Female ◽  
Diagnostic Problem ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
North Carolina School ◽  
The University ◽  
Instructive Case

At the suggestion of Dr. Floyd Denny, Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, the following interesting and instructive case is presented as a Letter to the Editor. A difficult diagnostic problem in a 9-year-old girl consisting of high fever, leukopenia, hemolytic anemia and splenomegaly is presented. C. W., a 9-year-old, white female, is the dependent of an Air Force Captain. She was well until February 17, 1967, when she was sent home from school with a fever.

Education and the University of North Carolina Pre-Flight School

Home Front ◽  
2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Military Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
The State ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Trained Teachers ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

Primary and secondary schools were hard hit by the war, with a dearth of supplies and trained teachers. Many colleges and universities, vacated by men off to war, would have had to close were it not for the U.S. military training units at the schools. Each institution in the state had some sort of government activity on their campuses, but the preeminent center was the Navy Pre-Fight School at UNC-Chapel Hill, where two future presidents of the United States, George H. W. Bush and Gerald Ford trained.

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