Word: malariae
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...would have been just as correct to attribute the causes of malaria and yellow fever to "noxious jungle vapors and immoral living" as to "bacteria-carrying mosquitoes." In fact, malaria is caused by protozoa-carrying mosquitoes, and yellow fever by virus-carrying mosquitoes...
...strategic withdrawal. The days of euphoria are over." With those words, a World Health Organization official last week gloomily characterized the current state of man's long battle against an ancient scourge: malaria. As recently as 15 years ago, health authorities were confident that they were well on the way to the total conquest of malaria. The dread disease, which afflicted as many as 300 million people at a time in the 1940s, was being swept away by the clouds of DDT spray that killed the malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes. Now, in Asia, Africa and Latin America, malaria...
...resurgence of malaria has been most dramatic in India, where the number of reported cases has soared from an alltime low of 40,000 in 1966 to 1,430,000 in 1972 and 5.8 million last year. One day last week 9,000 new cases were recorded in New Delhi alone. Sri Lanka, Pakistan and African countries south of the Sahara have also reported spectacular rises in the disease. Central America has been extremely hard hit; in Honduras, for example, malaria cases rose from 7,503 in 1974 to 30,289 in 1975 and 48,804 in 1976. El Salvador...
...doubters: Gustave Eiffel, the tower builder). The doubts were soon borne out: in 1889, De Lesseps' company went bankrupt. By that time, the French had moved 50 million cubic meters of earth?two-thirds of the amount moved at Suez. In the process, some 20,000 workers died of malaria and yellow fever (whose causes were thought to be noxious jungle vapors and immoral living rather than bacteria-carrying mosquitoes). Originally known as "the Great Frenchman," De Lesseps came to be called "the Great Undertaker...
...project-to trench the 50 miles between the seas. By the time the C.U.C.I. folded in 1889, it had spent $287 million dollars and the lives of some 20,000 Frenchmen and Chinese, Irish and West Indian laborers. The chief killers, as generations of schoolchildren have been told, were malaria and yellow fever...