Word: malariae
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Also on the decline in 1957: brucellosis, malaria, trichinosis, tuberculosis, typhoid...
...personally, but the place was hell, all right. By day the temperature stood as high as 140°, at night it never sank below 90°. Work was impossible after noon, and the film had to be stored in cracked ice. On top of the heat there were insects, malaria, dysentery. By the third day, cast and crew were dropping like flies. In 4½ months of shooting, 30 doctors handled 960 sick calls. Eddie Albert had sunstroke and spent several days in delirium. Director John Huston got a foot infection and broke out in sties. Producer Zanuck developed shingles...
...steaming Philippine jungle, John Linehan spent three years dodging Japanese soldiers' bullets and harassing the enemy. The Japanese never hurt him, but the jungle did. Suffering beriberi, malaria and enteritis, he lost 80 Ibs. By the time a U.S. sub evacuated Linehan, he had to be carried aboard...
...some "belly-to-belly selling" of a businessman interested in setting up a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico. "We have learned," he says, "that the U.S. businessmen we deal with today are as different from the plantation and sugar-mill colonials as we ourselves are from malaria-ridden serfs...
...million that Red China is pouring in, most has vanished down the well of government deficit, and Nepal has flatly refused to allow Chinese technicians inside its borders. As for recent U.S. aid-development projects in more than 1,200 villages, the ridding of the Rapti Valley of malaria-carrying mosquitos, the building of more than 600 classrooms, a $5,000,000 system of roads-it has met with an equally disheartening reception...