4104 Rosemary Street
Chevy Chase, Marylard 20015
May 24, 1966

Dr. Pedro Galindo Lr
P.O. Box 2016
Balboa Heights, Canal Zone

Dear Pedrot

  In reply to your letter of Hay l8th, I can say that my unalterable,
unchangeable, firm, and steadfast rule is never to intervene in personnel
appointients in organizations I have left!  However, notwithstarrling this
fixit+y of purpose, I did call Dr. Harcos Charnes of the Pan American
Health Organisation regarding the case of Mr. Abdiel Adames.

   Dr. Charnes admitted that he is on a Selection Committee for GAS
but insisted he had not received the papers of Abdiel Adames. After
some discussion, Dr. Charnes agreed to check with the GAS to ascertain
if Adamea was a candidate.  After a long delay, Dr. Charnes called back
to report that the GAS had sent the A&mea papers to another committee
by mistake, a coRPllittea that does not have jurisdiction in this matter.
The situation is being corrected before the committee meete, so that
your intervention and mine at least places his case under consideration.

  I am glad to have the information regarding the apparent movement
of yellow fever virus up the peninsula.  I had known part of the story
from Dr. Young, but his interest in details on yellow fever is not as
greatasyoura andnrlne.

  You now have observation8 on two waves of yellow fever virus
moving up from Colombia:  one in 1948, the other, which did not go
past the Canal area, in 19%.  Apparently you are getting ready to
observe the third wave, this year or next.

  We now have obraervationa in the Paraguay-Parana River Valley of
southward extension of yellow fever from the Amazon Valley in wave8
beginning in 1934, 19&, 1950, 1956, ati 1963. Yellow fever this year
is at its extreme southern range in Parana, Santa Catarina, and Rio
Grands do Sul in Brazil, and in Corrientes and Nisiones in northeastern
Argentina.

  It takes a little time, but if we can wait a while and complete
getting the data, a disease can be counted upon to chart its own epide-
miological picture.

With kind personal regarde,

Sincerely yours,

Pred L. Soper