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Health

The Health Committee later changed its name to the World Health Organization. It worked hard to defeat the dreaded disease leprosy, and started the global campaign to exterminate mosquitoes. The World Health Organization greatly reduced causes of malaria and yellow fever in later decades. Also, the USSR, which apposed the League, took advise on preventing plague in Siberia. The League also investigated and dealt with the Typhus fever in Russia.