Word: malariae
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...biggest of the federal projects is at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta. There, to run its malaria research, PHS has installed a staff inside the walls, with its own offices and laboratories, and a separate ward for the prisoners who volunteer to be bitten by malaria-bearing mosquitoes. World War II's crash campaign to find quinine substitutes depended on federal prisoners...
...compound will undergo extensive WHO tests, and if the new chemical is indeed everything that is claimed, snail eradication can begin in earnest. And none too soon. "Today," warns the British medical journal Lancet, "schistosomiasis threatens to replace malaria as a major scourge of mankind...
...Those Pills." During World War II, "Atabrine discipline" was difficult to enforce because the antimalaria drug made many a serviceman's skin turn yellow. Today's malaria preventives have no such drawback. But medical officers in all the armed forces still have to fight against ignorance and superstition. It takes only one oddball muttering "Those pills will make you sterile, buddy," and rumor buzzes around the base. Great quantities of medicine get flushed down the toilets. Penicillin was whispered to impair potency. Recruits who were supposed to take it daily as a preventive against rheumatic fever often spat...
...tells about a young civil servant who comes to an isolated village to run the post office and finds, as a legacy from lis predecessor, a wistful ten-year-old girl who is to be his servant. He teaches her to read and write; when he falls ill with malaria, she nurses him through his fever. He asks for a transfer back to the city and she hides, sobbing, when his replacement arrives. The departing postmaster walks slowly away from the village, calling to the girl to say goodbye. She appears, carrying a heavy pail of water, and looks silently...
...into using a variety of conservation practices: planting trees, contour plowing, diversifying crops, enriching their land with TVA-developed fertilizers. One byproduct of the reforestation has been the cre ation of a $500 million private forest-products industry. TVA has also fought mosquitoes to lick the valley's malaria, which in 1934 had infected more than 30% of the people living along the river in northern Alabama. Since 1949 not a single case of local origin has been reported along the reservoirs...