Word: malariae
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...about one-tenth of an inch long and is ubiquitous in certain woodlands. Once inside the body, the kala-azar protozoan invades and weakens the immune system, causing fever, weight loss, anemia and enlargement of the spleen. If the disease is untreated, a secondary infection, such as pneumonia or malaria, usually brings painful death...
...visibly weak now, suffering from recurrent bouts of malaria and, reportedly, a bad heart condition. But even so, there was something unreal about the televised jungle trial. When the rehearsed ranting of his accusers was finished, young soldiers respectfully guided the vilified leader to a waiting vehicle, which took him to a house in the jungle, possibly the last time the outside world will ever see him. Gone too was any likelihood that he will ever be brought to real justice for instigating some of this century's most unspeakable crimes...
...medical, there is good reason. Back in the 1960s and '70s, public-health experts felt they had pretty much triumphed over infectious diseases. Smallpox was on the way to extinction; polio was all but vanquished; and, thanks to antibiotics, improving sanitation and pesticides, such maladies as tuberculosis, cholera and malaria were on the run. One by one, humankind's deadliest scourges were being wiped from the earth...
...same time, the human defensive perimeters were crumbling. Underfunded prevention programs, along with excessive antibiotic use that led to drug resistance, were allowing diseases like TB, dengue fever, bacterial meningitis, yellow fever, cholera, malaria and even the dreaded plague to return. By the early 1990s there was a panicky feeling in the air that the microbes were exacting their revenge--and that humanity could do very little about...
Promising as it is, ProMED has a long way to go. The network does nothing to address the underlying causes of new and re-emerging infectious diseases. In order effectively to prevent the rapid spread of communicable diseases--whether familiar ones such as malaria, relatively new ones such as Ebola or mysteries like hantavirus--sanitation and sewerage systems have to be built, and the public has to be educated about hygiene...