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The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture
These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness.

#52: Fred Soper (1893-1977)

Fred Soper (1893-1977) was an American epidemiologist and public health administrator.

He instituted the Global Malaria Eradication Programme which relied on the use of dichloro-diphenyl -trichloroethane (DDT) to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

The result was the elimination of the disease from the developed world, and from many parts of the Third World. His efforts were directly responsible for saving the lives of millions of people worldwide, an honor nearly without precedent in human history.

Soper understood the grave threat nature can pose to humanity, and he demonstrated what can be achieved when humanity uses thought and action to boldly fight back.



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