Word: malariae
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...Guadalcanal in 1942, Barney Ross got the Silver Star and a reputation as a Jap killer. He also got malaria. Brought home to the wartime U.S., he allowed his name and his medal to be exploited from coast to coast. Then he dropped out of sight. The next news of Barney Ross was when his showgirl war bride divorced him two months...
While the rest of Venezuela battened on oil, the cattlemen struggled with the legacy of civil wars, a virulent malaria known as la fiebre económica (Venezuelans quip that if it hits in the morning, your only expense is a coffin at night) and the 27-year exploitation of Dictator-President Juan Vicente Gómez. Their worst headache: the senseless three-to-four-week trek to Gómez's slaughterhouse near the coast (over 20% of the cattle's weight was lost...
...Veils, No Skirts. In 1925, when A.U.B. introduced coeducation to the Lebanon, it did much to liberate Near Eastern women. Today unveiled Moslem girls mingle with men on the Mediterranean-edged campus, play tennis in shorts. Beirut's 1,000 graduate doctors now battle trachoma, typhus, malaria throughout the Near East. With 42 nationalities and 30 religious sects among its 2,463 students, A.U.B. is a "perpetual peace conference...
...grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...
Doctors' Dilemma. In Colorado, at Buckley Field Station Hospital, Staff Sergeant Othal E. Chronic was down with chronic malaria...