Word: malariae
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...sickened with malaria, scurvy, dysentery, collapsed from hunger and sheer fatigue. Food and ammunition had to be carried to them by air. The ghostly jungles closed around them. Snipers potted them and fanatical Japs jumped them from trees. Corpses of haggard-faced, bearded U.S. soldiers bobbed in the flooded rivers. Officers as well as men dropped like flies. Brigadier General Hanford MacNider was wounded. Entrenched on high, dry ground around Buna, the Japs held...
...beleaguered Bataan and Corregidor, Annalee shared the troops' experience in everything but firing guns and flying planes. She ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine-stuck it out with our boys for two bitter months. You may remember Jacoby's on-the-spot reports on how the Japs dished it out and our men took it as some of the most vivid, angry reporting ever to appear in the pages of TIME & LIFE...
...startling. I am going to knock on wood . . . because it is still in the experimental stage." New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, on his weekly broadcast, then announced that the city's Public Health Research Institute had succeeded in immunizing laboratory animals against certain kinds of malaria parasites, a feat many experts believed impossible...
...Cornell. The U.S. Army & Navy, hopeful that the discovery may lead to a vaccine which will lick World War II's No. 1 disease, have put the lid on the experiments, they will not allow the institute to reveal the kinds of animals immunized, or the kinds of malaria parasites-there are four-against which the animals were protected...
...From the purely physical standpoint the Pacific campaigns have been infinitely worse for the private soldier. There he's had to live in the heat and filth of the jungle, worrying about malaria and the fact that a scratch may develop into a tropical ulcer...