C. Brooke Worth, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

C. Brooke Worth

Army Research Physician

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1908

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1984

Profession: virologist, medical writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About C. Brooke Worth

  • Charles Brooke Worth (September 4, 1908 – December 22, 1984) was an American naturalist and virologist who worked as a professor at Swarthmore College, with the US Army during World War II, and then with the Rockefeller Foundation during the post-war period working on matters of public health and mosquito-borne diseases.
  • He travelled around the world, including countries in Africa and Asia, and was the author of several books, including Manual of Tropical Medicine, A Naturalist in Trinidad, The Nature of Living Things, and Mosquito Safari: A Naturalist In Southern Africa, Of mosquitoes, moths, and mice. Worth studied at Swarthmore College and then received an MD from the University of Pennsylvania.
  • While at Swarthmore he was an instructor in zoology.
  • During WWII he was assigned to the Army Medical School and was one of the instructors of the Tropical Medicine Course and co-author of the Manual of Tropical Medicine.
  • He researched malaria, viral diseases, vectors, mammalian and avian reservoirs in several countries and published widely on the subject.
  • Worth examined the idea of transovarial transmission of viruses by mosquitoes.As a Field Staff Member for the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr.
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  • Brooke Worth went to the South African Institute of Medical Research (SAIMR) in Johannesburg in the 1950s and was able to carry out a remarkable series of field studies in South Africa and Mozambique.In 1960 he was assigned to the Trinidad lab in Port of Spain, associated with the University of the West Indies.
  • He was married to Merida Gray, who ran a bookshop in Swarthmore.
  • After returning to the US, he settled on a 63-acre farm at Eldora, Cape May, where he conducted studies on the insects and birds and published about them in his Of Mosquitoes, Moths and Mice (1972).
  • The farm was subsequently made a nature reserve.

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