Word: malariae
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Five hundred men have volunteered for medical or scientific experiments, including attempts to find cures for jaundice, pneumonia and malaria and testing various methods for preventing typhus...
...Some of the Service's malaria research was so sensational that findings "cannot be reported until...
...have contracted any of the following diseases: athlete's foot, scurvy, beriberi, housemaid's knee, ringworm, malaria, St. Vitus' dance, bubonic plague, cold, sore throat, sore back, body odor or halitosis...
...Malaria is endemic among southern sharecroppers in the U.S. Recently the U.S. Public Health Service tried DDT against malaria-bearing mosquitoes in Arkansas. In a 36-square-mile area of cotton country, it hired high-school boys to spray the walls of nearly all the sharecroppers' shacks. Cost: 74? per house for DDT and labor. Result: a 94% reduction (for at least two months) in the number of mosquitoes in the treated houses. Dr. F. A. Knowles, bacteriologist of the Public Health Service, announced last week that as soon as more DDT is available for civilians, a nationwide spraying...
...MacArthur had to have men if he was going to carry on his New Guinea campaign. The malaria-ridden men of the 32nd were isolated to be cured. The rest of the Division licked its wounds and waited-until lean, tough Major General William H. Gill, now their commander, stood them up and proclaimed that he was going to put the outfit together again. A year later the 32nd was back...