Charles Wardell Stiles (May 15, 1867 – January 24, 1941)[1] was an American parasitologist born in Spring Valley, New York. He was notable for working on a campaign against hookworm infestation in the American South, where it had been found to cause high rates of anemia, a debilitating disease.[2]
^Wright, Willard H. (1941). "Charles Wardell Stiles: 1867–1941," The Journal of Parasitology, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 195–201.
^John Ettling, The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South (Harvard University Press, 1981), pp. 9-48, 98-129, 200-202 on Stiles.
