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Title A name given to the resource Malaria Control: CDC Beginnings Description An account of the resource <div class="landing"> <p>In 1942, when the U.S. was mobilizing for the Second World War, the U. S. Public Health Service set up a program to protect the personnel of military bases in the Southeastern states from malaria. This disease had long been rampant in the area, and posed serious threats to the health of the military and civilian populations. The program known as Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) was created to carry out the work. The lack of space in Washington due to the war effort allowed the program to base its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and closer to the work at hand. During the war years, the program was expanded to include the control of other communicable diseases. Because its work was so successful, a new organization was created around the nucleus of MCWA, the Communicable Disease Center (CDC). The date was July 1, 1946. This archive chronicles the agency’s early history from 1941-1951, including the contributions of local businessmen and Emory University. The buttons to the right will connect you to a searchable database of documents, oral histories, photographs and media. To conduct an advanced search, use the link in the blue navigation bar above. Use of this information is free, but please see <strong>“About this Site”</strong> for guidance on how to acknowledge the sources of the information used.</p> </div> Media Powerpoints, Recorded lectures, movies, training films, and interviews Player html for embedded player to stream video content <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4TCJYZBoEOs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource CRIMINAL AT LARGE Description An account of the resource This film is an animated filmograph describing the danger of malaria transmission by the Anopheles mosquito. A cub reporter is depicted trying to investigate the story of "Anna Awful" (anopheles), an evil femme fatale of sorts who is sickening and terrorizing people. As the reporter gathers "the scoop," we see shots that include: diagrams of eggs, larva, and pupa, the difference between male and female adults, the way the female transmits malaria organisms, and the difference between Anopheles quadrimaculatus and Culex mosquitoes. Color TRT 14:00 Produced by the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, Federal Security Agency, Public Health Service. http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8800163A Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived U. S. 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Title A name given to the resource Smallpox Description An account of the resource <div class="landing"> <p>Smallpox disease was declared eradicated in 1980, the result of a collaborative global campaign. To date, it is the only disease affecting humans to be eradicated from the world. Global eradication of smallpox ranks among the great achievements of humankind. Gone, through determined human effort, is a disease which has brought death to millions, frequently altering the course of history, and traveling through the centuries to every part of the world.  </p> <p>The vital contributions made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are highlighted. Official government correspondence, meeting transcripts, policy statements, surveillance reports and mortality statistics tell a part of that story. Adding depth to these traditional archives are the personal stories of the public health pioneers who worked tirelessly on the frontlines of the smallpox eradication campaign.</p> <p>The links above connect you to a database of oral histories, photographs, documents, and other media.</p> <p>Use of this information is free, but please see <strong>“About this Site”</strong> for guidance on how to acknowledge the sources of the information used</p> </div> Moving Image A series of visual representations imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession. Examples include animations, movies, television programs, videos, zoetropes, or visual output from a simulation. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. <pre><strong> Interview Transcript </strong> Interview Mr. Peter Crippen | with two Interviewers [unnamed] Transcribed from audio: January 29 2009 | Duration 0:22:41 Interviewer1: This is an interview with Dr. Crippen, April 2, 2008 at the CDC in Atlanta. I guess we will start where you'd just do an introduction. Who you are and how you became involved with Public Health and smallpox, and why you became involved with it? Peter Crippen: Okay. First of all, it's Mr. Crippen. Interviewer1: Mr. Crippen. Okay. Peter Crippen: And who I am is a Public Health Advisor, that's for those of us who are public health advisers, that says a lot. Right now, I'm still with CDC, I've been with them for more than 40 years. I was in the Peace Corps in Thailand right out of college, right out of bachelor's degree, and didn't have anything to do with public health. I was a teacher, but when it became time to come home, I needed a job and there were a lot of postings that came through for Peace Corps volunteers who were about to return. Most of them were teaching jobs and I wasn't interested in a teaching job, and the only other one that seemed interesting was being what we used to call VD-a VD investigator. So that sounded interesting to me, and I applied for it and I was interviewed and got the job. It was very easy at that time frankly. If you had a bachelor's degree in almost anything whatsoever, they would hire you and you could walk, you know; you could get a job as, what became, Public Health Advisers. At that time, we were not public health advisers; we were what was then called, Cooperative Employees, which meant that they could fire us at will for the first year or so. But after a year, we became Public Health Advisers. I started out in Chicago and then went to Detroit; and when I was in Detroit there were opportunities to go to West Africa for the Smallpox Program which interested me a great deal. From my Peace Corps experience I hadn't been to Africa, but I knew what it was like to work in a third world country if you will, and it sounded fascinating. So I applied for that and I was selected and went to Nigeria. What had just recently been Biafra, the war was over, but just recently over. That would've been in 1970, and we stayed there for two years in the Eastern part of Nigeria in Calabar and Enugu. Enugu was the capital of Biafra at one time, and I saw a lot of interesting things. I saw monkey pox for instance which was misdiagnosed as smallpox at the beginning, but what I did not see in 1970 was smallpox. There wasn't any in 1970 in Nigeria; and we looked very hard. We didn't know that there wasn't any. Everybody assumed that it was mostly gone, but people wanted to be sure that it was really gone, so we looked very hard and we found monkey pox. We did some good things, it was combined with the measles control program and we did a lot of measles vaccination, saved I think a lot of children's lives with measles vaccine. But I didn't see any smallpox which kind of nagged at me. So we came back after a few years, 1972, went back to Chicago this time with the Immunization Program and routines went on, had children, things like that, like people do. Then heard about the opportunity to go to Bangladesh and so I threw my name in the ring again for a temporary duty assignment to Bangladesh, and I was selected. I think I was the first public health adviser to go to Bangladesh. Before that, I think it was all physicians who were there. Immediately following me was Jean Roy. I don't know if you've interviewed him yet, but I'm sure you will, if you haven't. But he, I think was the second public health adviser in Bangladesh. So we flew over on the plane to New Delhi with Mike Lane who, if you haven't interviewed, I'm sure you will, and we stayed in New Delhi for a couple of days, had dinner at Bill Foege's house; and Mike Lane stayed in India. He was working in India. I got on the plane to go to Dhaka and arrived sick as a dog in Dhaka, interviewed with Nick Ward who was a British epidemiologist who is very famous in smallpox circles and I worked with him again in WHO in Alexandria, the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office a few years down the road. We were working on diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. In any case, Nick Ward was there in Bangladesh. Stan Foster was essentially - Nick and Stan; I'm not sure who was on top, but Stan was certainly the American in charge although I think Nick might have been overall in charge of the WHO project. The other person of note was Stan Music who later on established some of the field epidemiology training programs at CDC; and Stan Music gave me some medical advice which was basically, drink a lot of water and get some sleep, it would feel better in the morning, here're some aspirin. Eventually I did feel better; a couple of days later I was out in the field, and at that time we spent, I think, 20 days in the field straight, and then five days back in Dhaka. So they just put me in a land rover, and off we went out to my station which was Faridpur. Nothing much to recommend Faridpur to anybody; by road, by land rover, it was about four hours from Dhaka. It was a long drive, not very far, but it took a long time to get there. Met the team, and I thought I knew what I was supposed to do. I'd been briefed. I knew what I was supposed to do, I was supposed to find smallpox. You know, go out with the team and search and follow-up rumors and vaccinate around the cases that we find. Do forward tracing, and that was the big thing that time. Not to look back to where it had come from but to look forward as to where the disease might have gone. Find the close contacts and see where they may have gone and then go to that place and see if anything had happened there. It didn't take long for me to see my first case of smallpox in Bangladesh. I think that first trip out, I saw my first case and she was dead. I remember the man - a woman about I don't know, a young woman 18, 19, something like that, and we said we heard there were smallpox here and he said, "Yes," and I said, "Is anybody here with smallpox?" He said, "Yes here." He pulls back a blanket and there is this corpse of this young woman there and it certainly looked like smallpox to me. Finally, I had seen my first case. I was hoping it would not be a dead case the first one that I saw but there she was. That was the beginning; we saw many cases after that. Thankfully many of them were still alive. It became clear that it's not really easy to catch smallpox. You really have to be in the same house with somebody who has it. Close within the same hut, and sleeping in the same place, eating in the same place, living in the same place, and then it's relatively easy to catch it; but outside of that kind of closed environment, we, I at least, didn't see much transmission in market places or buses or things like that or casual contact. So I stayed there not quite three months, more than two months, less than three. Others were staying there from January 1974 to I think early March of 1974; then I came back to routine in Chicago. Going around to catholic schools and making sure everybody had their shots. That was my job. The way I got into it was a fascination with working overseas, it just never left me; I've stayed in it one way or another since that time, and the public health aspect is certainly rewarding. You see fewer bodies when you left than when you arrived, so that's one way of measuring success. Interviewer2: What was your first thought when you arrived in Bangladesh? Peter Crippen: Well, it is not really different from some things as I had seen in Southeast Asia, but I guess my first thoughts were that I was too sick to do anything. But I was glad that I knew Stan and so I felt things would probably be alright as long as Stan was around there giving me some advice. When I was back in Dakha out of the field, I stayed at Stan's house so it was kind of a - and of course he had his whole family there, had all his kids and his wife so it was a nice way to be in the field with essentially nothing, you know, and then to come back and be in a family atmosphere before you went out again. I was trying to think before coming, how - right now we communicate all the time, people have Blackberries and cell phones; and I can't remember that we communicated at all when we were in the field. We were there, that's it, and nobody essentially knew where we were, and I don't remember getting instructions from anybody or inquiries from anybody. We just did what we did; we kept records of things that we were suppose to keep and we came back and during those five days, we shared what had happened; but in between, there was nothing. There was no contact whatsoever that I can remember. Most of Bangladesh is water. Water with a little bit of ground in between and that's the why the people make their living, is fishing and rice-But in any case, we would take the land rover to Faridpur town and then from there we usually go by speed boat some place, named or unnamed, and then get out of the boat and walk. We would walk for hours to wherever it was you were going, to some small village where there was a rumor of something happening. So the boat was very important and the land rover less important and walking was extremely important because that was the only way you got to know where you were going. But I remember on time, we were in the boat and our driver wasn't the best I guess, a boat driver. Anyway he hit another boat and we all- myself and the team member that was with me anyway, fell out of the boat from the crash. This is a Ganges, a tributary of the Ganges. I lost my glasses and my wallet was wet and all that stuff; and the team member that was with me, he broke his arm. I didn't break anything but I lost my glasses. I had sunglasses with me but that kind of thing, if it were to happened now in some place, I mean, there would be all kinds of support and running back and getting things repaired. There was nothing, I mean you'd just put on your sunglasses and keep on going until you are back in Dakha, where you can get some things repaired and get something done. Now that I think about it, it's pretty amazing there weren't more injuries than there were. There weren't things happening that couldn't be retrieved, maybe there were, maybe you'll find out about them but I never heard about them and we just seemed to do it. Interviewer2: How old were you? Peter Crippen: Well that was 1972, no '74, I was born on 1942 so what is that, it's 34. Yeah-what's 42 from 74? Whatever that is that's how old I was. I wasn't a kid. My second son had just been born in October or September of 1973. So he was less than six months old when I went and my wife was not thrilled although she understood, I mean, she had been with me in Nigeria and I think she understood that, the call of the pox or whatever, I don't know. Interviewer1: What would you say was the most frustrating part of your job while you were there? Peter Crippen: My favorite what? Interviewer1: Most frustrating part. Peter Crippen: The most frustrating part? Ah boy! Part of it was interference, there wasn't a lot of it but there were some. The person in charge of that area under the British system is called a civil surgeon and he was a little unusual. Of course they were all Bengali, that was the ethnic group and they should've all been Muslim because of the partition in 1947 and that's why Bangladesh had been East Pakistan, and then in 1971 became Bangladesh. Well this is 1974 so it wasn't that long that they had been independent. They were still using the British system and the civil surgeon was a Hindu and everybody I worked with was Muslim but he was a very high class kind of self-important person as some people tend to be, and there were of course goods that came in to support the program, among which were motorcycles that came in to be used by the teams for going around searching and things. He sort of appropriated one for his son and I took it as part of my responsibility to disappropriate it, but it was clear that you can't offend this man because he controls everything. He controls the petrol I'd use in the land rover. He controls all of the personnel that are on your team, I mean, you can't do anything without him so we just had a little conversation and I just had to let him know that I was aware of the fact that there should have been 20 and there's only 19 motorcycles; you know, that his son just happens to have a new motorcycle. So this would be embarrassing if it became well known and surely he understood that within a month or so after the newness had all worn off, we might be able to use his son's motorcycle for what it was intended for, sort of a veiled threat, if you will, of embarrassment. Nobody likes to be embarrassed like that. So we got it back eventually but that kind of thing can be frustrating because you know - you can't be quite as upfront as you would like to be, or as Americans tend to be about some things, you have to work within the culture as it stands and within the personalities that you're confronted with, you know. I guess that not really frustrating, it's part of the job, it's what you learn how to do if you want to get things done. Interviewer1: So from between the time you left for Bangladesh and the time you came back, how do you think that you changed as a person and as a public health worker? Peter Crippen: Well in terms of public health, I think I learned how to get along in another environment. I had been in other environments before but each new place you go to teaches you something specifically for Bangladesh, I'm not really sure but it certainly enforces, or reinforces your ability to be flexible, to take things as they come and to work within the constraints that you are given and to just try to do the best you can with what you're given and keep on going. So those skills I think they are valuable wherever you happen to work. As a person, I'm not really sure how it changed me. I'm sure it must have and I guess I may be more resilient than I had been. I don't think I was any smarter but I think I knew how to bounce back better anywhere. Interviewer2: How many other assignments overseas did you have? Peter Crippen: Oh gee! A lot-in terms of temporary duties, after that I was with yellow fever in Gambia with Tom Monahaff[inaudible name0:19:36] and others. I did something again with Nick Ward in Indonesia for WHO for looking at their immunization program in Indonesia and went both to Indonesia and to Bangkok to look at the - and then I was with WHO for six and a half years in Alexandria office which is now in Cairo, as I said for diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infections; and then I went from that office to Hanoi for HIV-AIDS and spent a year and a half in Hanoi. Then came back to CDC and went to the Western Pacific for three years. There were six US jurisdictions in the Western Pacific: three countries and three territories. Came back to headquarters and there was a Global AIDS Program, and I don't know how many countries in South East Asia and West Africa, South Africa and Central America, Brazil, and now I'm with the Emerging Infections Program and with them I've been to China and to Kenya. So once you get the bug, you sort of keep it I guess, and if you know of any other opportunities, I'm ready. Interviewer2: Any words of advice you'd like to give? Peter Crippen: I guess my only advice would be that CDC needs to keep doing this sort of thing and needs to keep up its reputation as a world leader in global health. People around the world, as you know, Dr. Sencer, I mean you came to - when I was in Alexandra, you came as a consultant to-was it Yemen or Qatar or some place anyway because I don't remember why which country it was-but they wanted somebody to come who could give them advice about their public health system. Well that sort of thing happens all the time; sometimes if it is high level advice like that, or if it's very nitty-gritty: What do we do now? This is a disaster-and the world looks to CDC to be able to provide that kind of expertise and the only way you develop that kind of expertise is by doing it, by continuing to do it and having your personnel used to performing the job in an odd place with little or no assistance. Interviewer2: Thank you Peter. Peter Crippen: You're very welcome. [End of audio - 0:22:41] </pre> Player html for embedded player to stream video content <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iChsdh1PVag" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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