| |
| | CDC - Vol. 10, No. 4 Cover, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). I Raro te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) (1891) |
 | | "Between me and the sky there was nothing except the high frail roof of the pandanus leaves, where the lizards have their nests," wrote Paul Gauguin in the autobiographical account of his first visit to Tahiti (1). |
 | | Under the Pandanus (on this month’s cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases) was painted shortly after Gauguin arrived on the islands in search of his famed reprieve from Western civilization. |
 | | The prickly pandanus (screw pine), whose symbolic abundance pervades the painting on this issue’s cover, is native to many Pacific archipelagoes, providing roof, sustenance, adornment, and medicine to generations of islanders (4). |
| www.cdc.gov /Ncidod/eid/vol10no4/about_cover.htm (818 words) |
|