Word: malariae
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...Gordon Covell, one of the world's foremost authorities on malaria, will deliver the Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine at 5 p.m. today at the School of Public Health...
...tropical climes, an indispensable rejuvenator to hard-working British colonials is gin & tonic. The tonic has always meant Schweppes, a bitter, effervescent quinine water supposed to ward off malaria & malaise. Last week Schweppes took steps to colonize the U.S. It made a deal with Pepsi-Cola Co. giving Pepsi sole rights to bottle Schweppes in North America, and Schweppes will buy Pepsi's plants in England. Within a few months, Schweppes hopes to ship its concentrate to the U.S., cut its price from 40? to about 15? for a 10-oz. bottle, and be selling as much quinine water...
...August, Director Alexander Langmuir of the U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service got an alarming phone call in his Atlanta office. It was from the California Department of Public Health. Three of the Camp Fire Girls had come down with malaria, and there was no telling how many more of the 1,500 might have been infected. Somebody had to check all the families and warn hundreds of doctors who normally would never suspect malaria in an area which has been free of it for a dozen years. But the state's health officials were already swamped with work from...
...could, and promptly did. Senior Scientist Roy Fritz (who is working for a Ph. D. in entomology) and Nurse Albina Bozym flew west. For weeks they worked from early morning till late at night, checking on the Camp Fire Girls' recent illnesses. They found six more cases of malaria. The girls must have been infected at Lake Vera. Mosquitoes trapped there proved to be the disease-carrying kind. But who took the malaria there to begin with...
...while the disease detectives seemed to be up against a blank wall. After almost a month, they got a break. The owner of a house near the camp asked a neighbor casually: "Wasn't it too bad about the malaria at the camp?" "Yes," was the answer, "but he's all right now." "He?" "Yes-my son. He got malaria in Korea and had a relapse while he was visiting up here." As soon as this backyard chitchat was reported to Dr. Fritz, the puzzle was solved. The marine veteran of Korea got medical care, and spread...