Word: malariae
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...will be restricted to sanitation and agricultural projects and the teaching of English as a secondary language. Ultimately, Shriver and Kennedy envisage a corps of several thousand skilled Americans working on such diverse projects as vocational guidance taught by Swahili-speaking American instructors in Tanganyika and the eradication of malaria led by bright young American doctors on the ''fever coast" of Central America...
...Jack Kennedy dropped out of Connecticut's Canterbury School with acute appendicitis. Recurring jaundice later forced his withdrawal from the London School of Economics and Princeton. Playing junior-varsity football at Harvard, he injured his spine, and in the Pacific, during World War II, he picked up malaria. When his PT boat was rammed and sunk by the Japanese destroyer Amagri, Kennedy was flung violently to the deck, and his old back injury was aggravated, causing spinal muscle spasms and sciatica...
Sandwiched between India and Tibet and ringed about by the towering Himalayas, Nepal long was as remote as a country could get. Underneath its hibiscus and gardenia blossoms, its whitewashed stupas and tinkling bells, its 8,500,000 people were among the most backward in Southeast Asia, beset by malaria, illiteracy and preyed upon by landlords and moneylenders. In 1951 a revolution backed by India toppled the ruling Rana family, who for a hundred years had kept successive Kings virtual prisoners, and King Tribhuvan was restored to power. When the ailing Tribhuvan died in 1955, rule passed to his young...
...more mysterious than viral hepatitis-a liver inflammation for which there is no known cure, caused by at least two elusive viruses that no scientist has ever seen. Operating under a dozen aliases (e.g., bilious attack, acute yellow atrophy), hepatitis has occasionally been confused with such unrelated ailments as malaria and mononucleosis, was once believed to be a penalty for excessive drinking. During World War II hepatitis was epidemic in the armed forces of the major combatants as well as in many civilian populations, and more than 170,000 cases were reported in the U.S. Army alone. Because...
...Irish Red Cross; a new X-ray machine and cases of operating-room equipment are stacked against its walls, and the dispensary is equipped with large stocks of antimalaria drugs. But the U.N.'s Irish doctors found the Belgians had made no attempt to control the spread of malaria by clearing swamps or spraying trouble spots with DDT. And a mere two miles from Beni, the U.N. men discovered an entire village of leprosy victims living without medical aid in complete isolation and poverty...