Word: malariae
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...part of Mrs. Keith, Claudette Colbert is at last emancipated from the kind of role where she has to choose between George Brent and a career. She gets the chance to have a miscarriage, sweat out intermittent attacks of malaria, crawl on her back under a barbed-wire fence, gasp and stagger through the jungle, fight off a would-be assaulter, get beaten, slapped, and spit upon. Miss Colbert does all these things convincingly and manages as well to brig charm and warmth to the scenes with her husband and little...
...hard place to live; in the humid, tropical summers, men tucked newspapers under their shirtsleeves, made masks of them for their faces to keep off whining swarms of mosquitoes. For years, Glenn had racking seizures of malaria. The McCarthys had little money for cures -or anything else...
...thirds of their bauxite, they are so mechanized that fewer than 3,000 natives work in them. For the most part, Surinamers live in stagnant torpor, surrounded by jungle, mangrove swamps, umbrella ants, red howlers, web-footed dogs, and water pigs. Most of the people suffer variously from malaria, fllariasis, dysentery or leprosy...
...last week, except for a stiff neck, Alina had almost completely recovered. Physicians attributed her deathlike state to a severe attack of malaria. Her awakening, they guessed, might have been caused by the noise and motion of the funeral. For the stiff neck they had an even simpler explanation: her coffin had been too short...
...Sheep of Melissa. The great hunger for land has been gnawing at Italy's vitals for years; it has nowhere been more fierce than in Melissa, a grey, forlorn village in malaria-ridden Calabria, where the wave of land seizures began, in bloodshed, more than a month...