Without Aldo Castellani, a British trained specialist in tropical diseases, the Italian army would have paid a high price to conquer Ethiopia in 1936. At the beginning of the campaign – on the 3rd of October 1935 – the casualties due to typhus and malaria were set at about 22.000 but at the end only 600 had died. Dr. Castellani’s name and contribution are forgotten in modern Italy.
Aldo Castellani, il medico che fece vincere la guerra d’Etiopia a Mussolini