Word: malariae
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...soil in which the F.L.N. grew was provided by French rule in Algeria. The great French civilizing mission brought many good things: an end to cholera, typhus and malaria, the elimination of tribal wars and devastating famines, the beginnings of industrialization. But France also took away the best lands the tribes had owned, and, as the Moslem population rocketed upward, the remaining flocks and inefficient farms could not keep pace...
...donor services and banks under their control, and AABB has an inspection service to make sure that the blood they supply is not only fresh but, so far as possible, free of disease. Even so, donors out to make blood money will sometimes lie about whether they have had malaria, which is hard to check in the laboratory, or hepatitis, which is impossible to check. These diseases are a small but real peril in blood transfusion. Though no case of injury to a patient had been traced to blood supplied by the West-Chester firm, officials are still checking...
Laughter on the Left. Heading the U.S. delegation to Punta del Este, Secretary of State Dean Rusk tried to avoid appearing the Yankee colossus by recalling his own Georgia boyhood in "what people would now call underdeveloped circumstances . . . typhoid, pellagra, hookworm and malaria were a part of the environment in which Providence had placed us." But within a framework of democratic consent, said Rusk, an "alliance for progress" had been carried out within the U.S. And he eloquently pleaded: "Let us take action now to guard our own continent and our programs of democratic reforms against those who seek...
...nine-year-old Pakistani girl who came down with fever soon after she reached Bradford, northern England's wool capital, seemed to have malaria. After she died. Pathologist Norman Ainley did an autopsy to make sure. He was unprepared for the real cause of death: smallpox. In quick succession, the Bradford area produced eleven more smallpox cases among newly arrived Pakistanis and their contacts. Among them was Pathologist Ainley. He became the first patient to receive a new, experimental anti-smallpox drug-so new that doctors could not be sure how much to give him. But Dr. Ainley...
...France-sized diocese. "This is one of the most backward areas in the world," says "River Bishop" Ryan. "I am trying to show the Amazon peoples that God, at least, has not forgotten them." In the process, Dom Tiago, as most of his flock calls him, has contracted malaria six times and learned to relish monkey meat: "It tastes like chicken, if you shut your eyes...