Word: malariae
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...Malaria plagues nearly half the world's population. Since the war, researchers have been inching closer to a definitive cure for the disease. Last week it looked as if they just about had it-a new drug which, used with quinine, permanently cures 95% of all relapsing malaria cases. Still unnamed, it is identified as SN 13,274. The drug was developed at Columbia University, with U.S. Public Health Service aid, by a group of chemists headed by Dr. Robert C. Elderfield...
Relapsing malaria is difficult to cure because the tiny parasites that cause the disease lurk in the viscera, where they are hard to reach with drugs. SN 13,274 is the best of a long series of drugs that researchers have developed as improvements on quinine and atabrine. Dr. Elderfield hopes that supplies of the drug will soon be available for nearly half a million ex-G.I.s who have had relapses of malaria...
...Knisely was peering into the blood vessels of a monkey with malaria. He found a radical change in the red cells: instead of flowing independently, they were clumped together in sluggish masses. Knisely and his group went on to study the circulation in other diseased animals. Sure enough, sludged blood turned up in every animal and human being suffering from severe injury or disease. All told, they found red-cell clumping associated with over 50 conditions, from the common cold to hysteria...
Massachusetts Congressman John F. Kennedy, 30-year-old Pacific veteran, who went to Europe to study labor unions, was on his way home from England with war-born malaria after spending most of his six-week stay...
...third of the rural population has malaria, a fifth hookworm. In Rio and São Paulo the prevalence of syphilis and tuberculosis is even higher...