Word: malariae
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...they were in the lines and exposed to Korea's vivax-carrying mosquitoes, the troops got chloroquine (after the first few, disorganized weeks). It worked fine as long as they took it regularly. Even though they were bitten, the men had few feverish attacks. But they still had malaria. When they started home, the medics went to work on them aboard troop-laden transports. This time their weapon was primaquine, developed in the laboratories of Columbia University. These returned soldiers are being checked for relapses. There have been few, according to reports available now (but still incomplete...
Along with this mass test, the Army doctors got a chance to work on the soldiers who had gone to Korea first and come home earlier, without primaquine treatment. Last summer they began to show up at station hospitals all over the U.S. for malaria treatment. Some got only chloroquine, and nearly one-third soon had a second relapse. But of 246 who got pamaquine as well as chloroquine, only one relapsed, and of 231 who got primaquine with chloroquine, none relapsed...
...peculiarity: it is much safer for white patients than others; Negroes and many Asiatics may develop a form of anemia after relatively small doses. Also, it has to be given in several doses, so it is not the ideal drug for such a vast area of relapsing malaria as India...
...Belgian researchers are hard at work testing yet another new drug, daraprim. A thousand times as powerful as quinine, it can be taken in tiny, tasteless doses, and newborn Negro babies in Africa show no ill effects. So far, varying results with daraprim reflect the protean nature of malaria itself...
...Malaria is one of man's oldest enemies, recognized by medicine men long before Hippocrates. Mosquito control has threatened its supremacy. This year, for the first time, there is solid evidence that it may soon be defeated wherever Western medicine can penetrate...