Word: malariae
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...Malaria, which killed Alexander the Great in his prime and often saved Rome by cutting down besieging armies, is still the greatest enemy of man's health and welfare. The U.S. is one of the few areas of the world that has reduced malaria's ravages to manageable size. Elsewhere, it claims 300 million victims, 3,000,000 of whom die each year. By sapping the vitality of its victims, malaria breeds poverty. It bars economic progress in so many parts of the world that it has been called a "gigantic ally of barbarism...
...Sleeper. Most Americans think of malaria as a tropical disease, says Leon J. Warshaw in Malaria: the Biography of a Killer, published this week (Rinehart; $3.75). Actually, says Dr. Warshaw, the disease has struck from the Arctic to Patagonia. Once known as "the shakes," it was rife a century ago throughout most of the U.S. Dr. Warshaw, a New York diagnostician, estimates the number of U.S. sufferers today as high as 4,000,000. But no one knows just how many there are, because malaria is a skilled mimic, imitating the symptoms of other diseases...
Granting that malaria is no longer a serious problem in most of the U.S., Dr. Warshaw warns: "It is impossible to predict when a change in climatic conditions, even though temporary, may cause an explosive outbreak." However, the widespread epidemics expected after U.S. servicemen returned from malarial outposts in Africa and Asia have not developed...
Guardedly optimistic, the U.S. Public Health Service considers malaria licked as a public health menace, but it is still "a sleeping giant." Says PHS's Dr. Robert M. Coatney: "We shouldn't do away with our police force. As soon as we relax, it will come back...
...becoming a minister. Instead, he studied medicine and got an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1836. But after three years of private practice, he decided to become a missionary. The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions sent him and his young wife to China. A few years later malaria forced them to return, and Dr. Hepburn settled down to 13 years of practice in New York City...