Word: falciparum
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Where the malaria rate is very high, where deadly falciparum malaria prevails, or "where measures of control are difficult to enforce," Dr. Coggeshall recommends drugs. But in most situations he believes in screens and sprays, would actually omit drugs. Now being released to teach malaria and mosquito control in Latin America and the U.S. was Walt Disney's short, Winged Scourge, made under the direction of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Like Coggeshall, Disney comes out strongly for screens (see cuts...
...which cause the disease are carried by about 60 kinds of mosquitoes and are of four main varieties, each producing its own form of malaria: 1) Plasmodium vivax produces the mildest disease, benign tertian malaria; 2) P. malariae bring on quartan malaria, the most difficult to eradicate; 3) P. falciparum produces dangerous malignant tertian malaria; 4) P. ovale produces symptoms similar to those of benign tertian malaria...
...large stocks which were in the U.S. when Japan invaded the East Indies. It acts by destroying the asexual forms of all kinds of plasmodia in the human blood stream-the forms which produce the shivering, sweating and fever. Quinine also destroys the sexual forms of all but P. falciparum, which means that even after he is "cured" by quinine a patient with malignant tertian malaria can give the protozoa to any suitable mosquito...