Word: malariae
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...nuitrition levels and inadequate sanitation. World Health Organization statistics show that there is one dentist for every 10,472 Brazilians, one hospital bed for every 4,000, and no medical care of any kind in over a third of Brazil's municipalities. Although tuberculosis, Chagas's disease, and malaria are spreading, Brazil has spent less per capita on health than even Nicaragua. As Brazil's President Medici said, "The economy is doing fine, but the people aren...
...finca wage varies for 50 cents to $1 per day, and many laborers die of malaria and insecticide poisoning. Population growth squeezes the farmers even more as their land is divided between sons each generation...
...creation of a "Medal of the Mosquito" [May 21] because the pest kept the white man from permanently settling in his country prompts me to remind him that the mosquito quite happily infected white and black. It was the hated white man, however, who brought the cure for malaria to Sierra Leone and indeed to all of Africa. This cure was enjoyed by blacks as well...
...bitingly as it was last week when tiny Sierra Leone announced its first list of national awards and honors. A spokesman for President Siaka Stevens, recalling that the country's 19th century nickname was "the white man's grave" because of Sierra Leone's hordes of malaria-bearing mosquitos, said that among the honors would be a Medal of the Mosquito, for conspicuous gallantry. Why? Because the vicious little pests prevented white men from permanently settling in the area and thus forestalled the creation of another Rhodesia...
...something out of the Marquis de Sade. Some I would invite into my own home. Others I would like to take back of the woodshed and only one of us would return." There was the doctor who saved his life when he went into convulsions after bouts with malaria and beriberi. There was also the guard who scattered peanuts among chickens when protein was desperately needed by the P.O.W.s...