Word: malariae
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...pretty well supplied with vitamins in our regular diet. But the Chinese haven't had enough vitamins for years and years, and they are more jittery and irritable and restless than ordinarily, and they are tired. They are anemic, they are full of parasites and malaria and tuberculosis and dysentery. They have got to have adequate food and medical care...
...Malaria "has been reduced to one-fourth its incidence in the early part of the war so that the overall death rate from malaria in the Army is .01%. . . . Atabrine has been found more effective . . . than qui nine." Most effective preventive: mosquito eradication by the wonder insecticide D.D.T...
...decades the 42,000 square miles of the Valley of the Tennessee were ill-faring land. Floods devastated the lowlands and rains eroded the deforested hills. There was little industry. The malaria-ridden people were as impoverished as the soil. Like Aesop's fabled dog in the manger, Tennessee's paunchy, vituperative Senator Kenneth McKellar championed the land and the people; he wanted no improvements without patronage. When the vast, experimental Tennessee Valley Authority was created in 1933 he set out to force the spoils system upon...
...story is well known-how they fought through the torn coconut plantations, crossed the Tenaru River, fought the battle of Lunga Ridge; how they grabbed the airfield and hung on, almost out of supplies, ravaged by malaria, while the Japs poured in reinforcements. That tropical battleground became the focus of a nation's anxiety. If the ist had failed, the damage to U.S. plans and morale would have been incalculable. But the ist hung on. buried its hundreds of dead and counted the enemy dead in the thousands...
...Music Is GONE - LeGarde Doughty-Duell, Sloan & Pearce ($2.50). In St. John's County. Florida, a country doctor fights malaria, delivers babies, sends a young protegee to medical school. Sketchy but full of authentic characters and atmosphere...