Word: malariae
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...enemy out of 5,000 square miles of territory. There are no subplots, and no Ava Gardners miraculously rising out of the rice paddies. There is no false construction toward some climactic victory. It is just a steady series of small victories and long marches, constant death, pervading disease-malaria, typhus, amoebic dysentery, psychoneurosis-and the ultimate wonder that anyone survived...
...million people is only $30 ($5 if Addis Ababa is excluded), and 98% of the population are illiterate. Some 80% of the population have parasitic diseases ranging from hookworm to elephantiasis; venereal disease infects at least half the adult population, and infant mortality is nearly 40%. Malaria kills 30,000 people annually, and 40% of the country's cattle are tubercular...
...Geneva last week, the United Nations' World Health Organization wound up its 15th annual assembly on a note of triumph: WHO teams are well on the way to eliminating yaws as a tropical scourge; they have made dramatic progress toward the eradication of malaria. But to a man, the 300 delegates were sobered by the realization that their problems are still bigger than their successes...
Overshadowing all WHO's activities against particular diseases, reported Director General Marcolino Gomes Candau, is the antimalaria campaign-"the most gigantic scheme ever undertaken for the benefit of man." When WHO began its war on malaria seven years ago, 1.4 billion people (half the world's total) lived in malarious areas, and 200 million had the disease. Now, Dr. Candau can proudly report, malaria has been wiped out from areas containing 317 million people...
Though DDT has worked wonders, malaria has proved such a versatile foe that WHO researchers are going to extraordinary lengths to combat the mosquitoes that carry it. In Pavia, Italy, they are practicing artificial insemination on mosquitoes to overcome the insects' natural shyness about reproducing in captivity...