Word: malariae
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...sleeping on corridor floors, or two or three to a bed" in our hospitals, and might imply that the bulk of the patients are in the hospitals with war wounds. In fact, a great preponderance of our patients have preventable communicable diseases-typhoid fever, cholera, bubonic plague, hepatitis, malaria and other such conditions-that are the result of environmental health problems and lack of basic health education. Dr. John Knowles recommends that we double the U.S. medical budget, bring in more U.S. surgeons, train more Vietnamese doctors and start an immunization program. Might we suggest the most desperately needed commodity...
...held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce and is pledged to defend the kingdom, has built a rival road south from Katmandu toward Calcutta. The Russians have chipped in with a cigarette plant and a sugar refinery. The U.S. is working on rural development, malaria eradication, family planning and education. It also hopes to participate, along with India, Britain and Russia, in Mahendra's most ambitious scheme: a third major highway that will open up the fertile ricelands to the impoverished Nepalese mountain tribes...
...extended tropical sojourn appears to have generated other useful or once useful adaptations more frequently found in dark-skinned peoples. A hereditary blood condition known as the sickle-cell trait, which grants resistance to certain types of malaria, is only now beginning to wane among U.S. Negroes, who no longer have any need of it. The Negro's woolly black hair once provided insulation against the heat of the blazing tropical sun; his thick lips, by exposing more mucous membrane, may have increased the body's evaporative cooling powers in torrid climates; his characteristically long legs and lean...
...infectious disease center where researchers will study such diseases as malaria and typhus will be equipped with its own air exhaust system and an electronic incinerator to insure that no contaminants escape into the outside air. The rest of the building will make use of three separate air exhaust systems, not counting the systems used by the infectious disease center. Before the air from these other three system used by air from these other three systems is exhausted it will pass over an ultraviolet light source for sterilization...
Surgery is not strictly a matter of cutting into patients and cutting something out. The A.M.A. last week heard about a new operation designed not to cut out but to filter out the tiny parasites that cause schistosomiasis, a disease that is rapidly displacing malaria as mankind's greatest scourge in tropical regions...