Word: malariae
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...since 1640, when extracts of "Jesuits' bark" (cinchona) from Peru first gave Europeans the benefits of quinine for their "ague," has there been such good news for the world's malaria victims, who number hundreds of millions. Doctors can now handle a feverish flare-up caused by practically any type of malaria, and they can prevent relapses in most types. More progress has been made in the last dozen years than in the last three centuries. Last week the A.M.A. Journal published up-to-date reports on some of the latest drugs, based on the experience of G.I.s...
...Malaria is not a single, simple disease, but a complex of diseases caused by several kinds of tiny protozoan parasites. In their complicated life cycle, after being transferred from an infected mosquito to a human host, they spend part of their time in the blood cells and part in the tissues...
Falciparum malaria, untreated, is more likely to be fatal than other forms. But the blood parasites, which emerge from the tissues only once, can be knocked out with the old standby, quinine, or wartime atabrine, or postwar Paludrine, Camoquin and chloroquine. The same drugs have done a good job of suppressing the fever flare-ups of relapsing ("vivax") malaria, which occur when the parasites are in the blood...
...Shot Cure? The big task has been to find a drug which would not only suppress active malaria, but cure the disease by destroying the parasites during the periods when they hide in the body tissues, so that there can be no more relapses. And it should be something that can be taken once, or for a short time, and then forgotten. The Army medics knew that in the G.I.s returning from Korea for discharge they had a perfect test sample of men who would forget about "malaria discipline" as soon as they got home...
...week, the first of the fortune hunters to come out of the wilderness were back in Macapa. Luckiest was Severino Gomes de Almeida, with $25,000 worth of nuggets. But most had found only misfortune. Some had lost their gear or their gold when canoes overturned. Others suffered from malaria, beriberi and bubonic ulcers. Most disillusioned was a prostitute, who had earned only $94.40. "There is no goodness or kindness up there," she said. "All those men think about is gold...