Word: malariae
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...burned her home to the ground and she lost everything but what she was wearing. (After that she spent two bitter months on Bataan and Corregidor - shared our troops' life in everything but firing guns and flying planes-ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine...
Perspiration Handicap. Malaria, dysentery, smallpox, typhus and sandfly fever were everpresent. But no disease was as terrible to the P.G.C. as the fierce Iranian heat. Normal summer temperature was around 140 degrees...
...there is little for sale. Night workers, miners and Navy personnel are permitted to buy vitamins. A bottle of about 300 pills is sold to authorized people for about 40?. Health conditions are wretched. All diseases of malnutrition (like beriberi) are rampant. The tuberculosis rate has risen steeply. Malaria is a scourge, probably because of water-filled bomb craters in which mosquitoes breed and because of infected veterans returning from the South Pacific. Typhoid is widespread, probably because of bomb damage to water mains...
...Exposure to danger and the assumption of hourly and daily responsibilities have made him older than his years. Treat this as a fact but not as a problem. . . . He will not fit a generalization. He may be coming from the swampy, malaria-infected South Pacific ... an action field in Normandy or the Rhineland . . . from a prison camp. . . . Forty lads coming back from 40 fronts may have had 40 very different experiences. The little homeside church, that bade him Godspeed and a safe return so many months ago, will have to deal with them as individuals...
...Asia. They are not yet in action and will not be for some time to come. In these months of grace it is the old army that is retracing the course of its great retreat last year, advancing in the same way it fled-tired, hungry, flea-bitten and malaria-ridden but still on its feet and walking...