Word: malariae
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...Business. While the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretaries made the sweeping decisions that extended the British realm, the Colonial Office minded the less dramatic chores of the empire. It set up the famed London School of Tropical Medicine, waged successful wars against malaria and the tsetse fly. Under its direction, Britain became the first modern nation to extend developmental aid to backward areas of the world, and its officers helped train a substantial segment of the world in methods of administering government and running essential health, educational and financial services...
...their hostile environment to such advantage. According to carbon 14 dating of a shell mound near the area, the newly discovered culture goes back to 3090 B.C., making it the oldest pottery site recorded in the New World. Only within recent years has earth-moving equipment, mechanized farming and malaria control made a 20th century dent on the ridged plains of Colombia...
...mountains and jungles of Laos and Cambodia. Captured diaries of infiltrators tell harrowing tales of the journey. Marchers carry 70-lb. packs up 40° slopes, cope with insects, snakes, mud, hunger, disease and even, occasionally, the attacks of wild animals. "Five of the men have died of malaria," observed one diarist. "Food situation getting critical," noted another, "will have to cut ration below 500 grams. The word tonight is that there is no rice stored at the next two stations." And once Giap's men arrive, he must keep them supplied by the same tortuous, 800-mile route...
...Malaria & Anemia. Newer, and far more mysterious, is a set of disease reactions that doctors describe as "pharmacogenetic." In these cases a drug may have no detectable harmful effect upon the vast majority of members of one ethnic group; yet because of a hereditary quirk, some individuals will be made gravely ill. Best example, said Dr. Moser, is the tendency-rare in the general U.S. population-to a blood-destroying anemia that can develop after taking aspirin or phenacetin (compounded together in the familiar APC tablets), some sulfonamides, and drugs for the relief of peptic ulcer...
...underlying cause of the trouble is a deficiency in a red-blood-cell enzyme (as complex as its name): glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD). And, strangely, a deficiency of G-6-PD is not necessarily bad. It confers a definite survival value in areas where malaria is rife, and it has evolved into a common condition among the peoples of the Mediterranean basin and West African Negroes. But if these malaria survivors take to modern medicine, they often find their enzyme peculiarity a grave liability. Widely prescribed drugs may throw them into a devastating, life-threatening anemia...