Word: malariae
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...World War II: a ghostly, arrogant lone raider that had sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge of the British admiral's flagship that day stood the man who had found the Königsberg, a slender, malaria-sallowed big-game hunter named P. J. Pretorius. A Briton raised in the Transvaal, he had spent his life in the jungle. When he had completed his war chores (he became chief scout to Field Marshal J. C. Smuts, who has written a foreword for this book), he slipped back into...
Little Money. They had had little money to work with. WHO's budget would be only $5,000,000 (U.S. contribution: about $1,925,000), most of it for passing out public health know-how to less advanced members. Priority programs (with $1,038,000): malaria, tuberculosis, maternal and child health, venereal disease, nutrition and "environmental hygiene" (including tropical hygiene, housing and town planning...
...testified that the doctors had given him up for dead. He had drunk master-cell water and was still alive. A veteran said that he had been cured of violent malaria. A woman said she had got rid of her corns...
...misshapen ranks of the world's diseases, poliomyelitis is only an infant-sized killer compared with a giant like malaria. As a disabler, it stands well below mental illness. But polio is the disease most feared by U.S. mothers, for it strikes with cruel suddenness, and (though the proportion of older victims is increasing in many parts of the world) its victims are still mostly children...
...medicine's unsolved mysteries was recently unraveled with the discovery that the malaria parasite hides for 10 days in the human: 1. Appendix. 2. Gall bladder. 3. Brain. 4. Pancreas. 5. Liver...