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Navy's swimmers got their Christmas present two weeks early on Saturday at Annapolis. Harvard's Bill Shrout had a 102 degree fever and could only swim in one event, the 50 yard freestyle, which he lost in mediocre time...
...drug. U.S. servicemen take a weekly prophylactic tablet containing 300 mg. of chloroquine and 45 mg. of another antimalarial known as primaquine. If they develop malaria despite this, they are likely to be infected by a resistant strain of parasites. If massive doses of chloroquine fail to bring the fever down within a few hours, the medics may switch to pyrimethamine (Daraprim), which is effective in some of the less severe cases. In most instances, however, the medics are forced back to quinine, the oldest antimalarial of all. For pernicious malaria threatening the brain, quinine must be given intravenously...
...poison produced by cholera bacilli that seem to trigger the damage in the intestinal wall. This impairment in turn cause cholera's devastating symptom: the most severe diarrhea known to man, in which an adult may lose up to 15 quart a day while running little or no fever...
Because the stakes are so enormous, the North Sea hunt has become a no-holds-barred game. Industrial spies now fill the sea and air off the British coast, in chugging trawlers and hovering helicopters, seeking to detect strikes before they are announced. The work pays well. Gas fever has become so hot that competing oil companies and stock speculators reward the spies for information with checks as large...
...kindly but conventional Christian who truly believes that the Indians will burn in brimstone if he does not baptize them. He pays for his stupidity to the uttermost farthing. The Niaruna indignantly reject his religion, his wife goes crazy with the heat, his small son dies of blackwater fever, and as the tragedy concludes he is hacked to pieces by the only important Niaruna who calls himself a convert...