As good news surfaces regarding a new (well, old) potential drug to help combat malaria--a drug already used to treat river blindness--KeithB and Phil Scheibel alerted me to another old malaria fighter featuring Dopey, Sneezy, and the whole gang:
Other Disney disease-fighting videos include Water, Friend or Enemy, Insects as Carriers of Disease and Hookworm. A list of other wartime shorts is here.
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When I was a kid in Colombia I used to love these film to pieces!
That is an adorable and informative video but the potential drug to combat this disease is very exciting and hopeful! Please keep us posted on this new drug.