Word: malariae
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...Elliotts suffered through typhoid fever, malaria and amoebic dysentery. But their most wrenching experience was the loss last year of their home. Left-wing guerrilla activity around Nebaj got so heavy, says Ray, that "our presence was endangering our friends." Along with all Catholic missionaries, they had to pull out of the war zone...
...Burma's most prosperous areas and one that became 90% Christian. "We wanted to show what Christians working together could achieve," says Eugene Morse. In a valley where there had only been jungle, 35,000 members of the nomadic Lisu and Rawang tribes created 30 villages. Malaria was virtually wiped...
Several months ago, the entire population came down with scabies. More recently, respiratory infections have been a problem, especially for the camp's 400 children. But the most serious malady is malaria. Nearly everyone has it, and some have suffered six or seven attacks. Says Tran Long, 27, a former mathematics teacher from Saigon: "Inadequate food and sanitation are our biggest problems. There are not enough latrines. The rainy season turns the camp into a cesspool...
...Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (I.C.R.C.). The Red Cross vehemently denies any responsibility, other than medical, for the camp. Nearly a dozen Western embassies in Bangkok have joined the I.C.R.C. in asking the Thai government to move NW 82 away from the dangerous, malaria-infested border. But all the legations began to backpedal when the Thais said they would comply if the countries represented by the embassies agreed to resettle all 1,900 refugees within 45 days...
...buildings and water systems costs millions of dollars annually. It may also pose a substantial threat to human health, principally by contaminating public drinking water. Says Canada's Minister of the Environment John Roberts: "Acid rain is one of the most devastating forms of pollution imaginable, an insidious malaria of the biosphere...