Exhibit 051 ยท Archive history
Eradication or Control? The Rockefeller Foundation's global anti-malaria campaigns
Ten thousand tons of DDT were deployed in Sardinia by 32,000 sprayers.
RF officer Fred Soper led the eradication of Anopheles gambiae from the invaded area of northeast Brazil, completed in 1940, with the larvicide Paris green, at a cost of $430,000 over three years. In Sardinia, run from 1946 through the agency ERLAAS, ten thousand tons of DDT were deployed by 32,000 sprayers, and officials cited a 99.9 percent success rate against the mosquito. The first superintendent, John Austin Kerr, questioned the feasibility of eradication in June 1946 and resigned about a year later.
- Source
- Rockefeller Archive Center
- Date
- n.d.
- Quoted from
- Section 'The Sardinian Experiment', second paragraph
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://resource.rockarch.org/story/eradication-or-control-the-rockefeller-foundations-global-anti-malaria-campaigns/
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit