Word: malariae
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...Nebraska farmer and a schoolteacher mother, Walter Judd earned his way through the University of Nebraska as a dishwiper. got a Phi Beta Kappa and an M.D. ('23). Young Dr. Judd then sailed to China as a medical missionary for the Congregational Church, was almost killed by malaria and by Communist rebels. He came back to the U.S. in 1938 to preach of the peril of Japanese expansion, made 1,400 speeches in two years urging the U.S. to stop sending war supplies to the Japanese. "I spent my time taking American scrap out of Chinese men women...
...Oklahoma and Kansas, where he had to beg for food. He tried being a cowboy in Wyoming, a homesteader in Nebraska, a farm hand in Missouri and a stock farmer in Texas-all attempts petered out. In Arkansas, where he worked as a bullwhacker, he came down with malaria, which he tried to treat with a patent medicine called Orang Utan Liniment and teas brewed from rattlesnake weed. At 45 he bought a ranch in the Panhandle that quickly became part of the great Dust Bowl. Finally, in 1946 he turned to a whole new career...
...traditionally most potent fever fighter has been quinine. Thanks to its long and distinguished history as the only effective weapon against the recurrent fevers of malaria, quinine is still highly regarded in Europe and among many older Americans (especially in the recently malarial South) for treating fevers. Last week, in Munich's Medizinische Wochen-schrift, Dr. Wolfgang-Dietrich Müller damned quinine with the results of a study on thousands of patients in Bielefeld. Among those who took quinine pills at the first sniffle, Asian flu was five to ten times as common as among those...
Getting out the riches is notably hindered by disease. Malaria, yellow fever, yaws, trachoma and filariasis (a forerunner of elephantiasis) sap men's will to work and win. But disease is being fought hard and successfully. During World War II, the U.S. launched a Special Public Health Service (SESP) to protect vital rubber workers from the Amazon's scourges. Now only eight of SESP' 3,153-man staff are U.S. citizens, and 97% of its annual $10 million budget comes from Brazil. The outfit runs 249 rural clinics, 22 hospitals, 109 city water systems, 97 sewage-disposal...
Little Manabu tended rice and vegetables between the rows of coffee trees, gradually grew husky enough to tote the 88-lb. coffee sacks. He taught himself to read Portuguese at night by kerosene lamplight, hoarded scraps of paper to make sketches on. But the heavy farm work, plus malaria and amoebic dysentery, bore down relentlessly on the family. The father proved too thin and weak for field work, devoted his waning life to drinking pinga (sugarcane spirits), finally died of cancer. Mabe, the eldest of the seven children, borrowed enough money to become a small-time farmer, struggled to keep...