Word: malariae
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...rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...
...Kahn of Cornell University Medical College reported that the dirty trick has been played, and that it works fine. Dr. Kahn, unlike Entomologist Hyslop (see below), is fiercely anti-insect. He went to Cuba and made a phonograph record of the song of a female Anopheles albimanus (a malaria carrier). Then he put a powerful loudspeaker in a buzzing Cuban swamp and surrounded it by a deadly electrified screen...
...only once, or at most a few times. If so, a sharp reduction (by siren song) of the number of males in a swamp will condemn most of the females to spinsterhood. They will lay unfertilized eggs and the next mosquito generation will be too sparse to distribute much malaria...
...town's 550 families were getting their drinking water from the silt-laden Tocantins River. Their only plumbing facilities were the jungle bush behind their rickety shacks. Cametá had no doctor, and there is no record of how many Cametenses died each year from dysentery, hookworm, malaria and typhus, but these and other communicable diseases accounted for 55% of all deaths in the Amazon region which includes Camet...
...antiseptic-smelling medical center, a staff of 14 SESP doctors and technicians are working on a program that has already rid the town of malaria, of nearly all hookworm, and cut the remaining cases of amoebic dysentery...