PEDIATRICS Vol. 2 No. 1 July 1948, pp. 142-143
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS AND REPORTS

Dr. Henry Helmholz, of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., is serving as chief medical consultant in Europe for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. The Fund is now helping to feed some 4,000,000 children in 12 European countries. Many of these children are in very poor physical condition. Two out of every three are T. B.-infected, so extensive findings show.

Dr. Helmholz is now working with Dr. Johannes Holm of Denmark and others on a program that calls for the testing of 50,000,000 European children in order to find the one out of three who is not yet infected with tuberculosis. These children will then be vaccinated against it with BCG vaccine. The United Nations Children's Fund is financing this unprecedented undertaking. It is one of the 25 agencies for whom help is now being sought through the campaign of the American Overseas Aid-United Nations Appeal for Children.