Word: malariae
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...major step is taken toward producing a malaria vaccine...
...heady days of the 1960s, international health authorities thought they had it licked. The enervating fevers, the trembling chills, the splitting headaches and the appalling child-mortality rates were on their way out. Malaria, exulted the World Health Organization in Geneva, was defeated in Europe, banished from Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) and on the run in India and Pakistan, thanks to the effectiveness of drugs and insecticides. Even in Africa, it stood to go the way of smallpox. They could not have been more wrong. Today more than half the world's people live under the threat of malaria...
...surrounding and one of the world's biggest health problems. Two groups scientists, one at New York University Medical Center, the other at the National Institutes of Health and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, announced they had taken a major step toward creating the first malaria vaccine. The teams reported in the journal Science that they had synthesized a constituent of the malaria parasite that could trigger immunity to the disease. "This is the protein that is important in developing protective antibodies against the initial stage of the malaria parasite," explained Colonel Franklin Top of Walter...
...breakthrough represents a new stage in the ancient battle against malaria and the insect that carries it, the female Anopheles mosquito. Peruvian Indians discovered the first important weapon: the bark of the Cinchona tree. For centuries the bark and its derivative, quinine, were the only means of preventing and treating malaria's waves of fever, which can recur erratically and weaken victims for years. Gin and tonic, originally made with quinine, is said to have been developed by British colonialists as a way of making their daily doses more palatable...
While Schultes says he has suffered the "usual" tropical diseases, such as malaria and beri-beri, he downplays the adventurous side of his experiences...