Word: malariae
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...down and conquered the Greeks around 400 B.C., renaming the city Paiston. But the Lucanians soon became peaceful, were assimilated by the people they had conquered; the city prospered even after the Roman legions came in 273 B.C., and called it Paestum. But as the Roman Empire declined and malaria spread from the nearby swamps, Paestum died. By 800 A.D. it was a forest-shrouded ghost city. Forgotten, it was bypassed by war and progress and written off as "nothing but a sun-baked collection of fine columns and a pile of worthless stones...
...example, the support of economic research makes it possible for both business leadership and Government to ... sustain a high and steady national production, the benefit to the public purse is obvious. It is even more obvious that the virtual elimination of yellow fever, the sharp reduction in malaria and hookworm, have direct economic benefits . . . The Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board...
...factory, painted when he could. Last year Sather had a show in Winnipeg which netted $800. With that, he bundled his family into a 1938 Ford station wagon and rattled off to Mexico. They lived in a shack in the jungle near Acapulco, and Sather came down with malaria. "But I have an attack only once a month," he says. "I'm so healthy, I'm a dynamo. I need only four hours' sleep a night." On their way back to Canada, the Sathers visited U.S. museums by day, camped in the fields when darkness fell...
...into two groups about 3,000 strong: they marched one group northeast towards the Red China border, the second 400 miles southeast to prison camps near Haithuon, on the coast of Red-held Viet Nam. The second group, to which these repatriated prisoners belonged, was ravaged by dysentery and malaria; the marchers got only 800 grams of rice and gruel a day, with occasional dried fish and peanuts. There were no medical supplies, although many of the walking wounded still bore shrapnel within their bodies...
...huge underground powerhouse from the bowels of a mountain. The air was blue with humidity; the sides of the cavern dripped water; every so often, a chunk of rock broke loose, came crashing down like a thunderbolt in a closet. The men knew that they might catch amoebic dysentery, malaria, or many another crippling tropical disease, that it would rain every day, that they would not see their families for months...