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...TIME, Oct 16 you say: "Natives of the jungle learned through the centuries that the best clothing was no clothing ; the best shoes no shoes; the best rations, whatever grows in the jungles. But the white man, with his civilized stomach, his vulnerability to ringworm, malaria and leeches, is far from being acclimated...
...have been in a jungle area for almost a year. . . . Compared to our "unacclimated" American boys, the natives have proportionally much more malaria for lack of clothing after sundown; more ringworm and other foot diseases because they go barefoot; and are more susceptible to tuberculosis, pneumonia, and other diseases because of improper nutrition...
...cases), temporary deafness, constipation, bronchitis, vomiting, heart inflammation. It is severe heart damage which causes most of the deaths. In other cases, the fever drops in about two weeks, but weakness persists for several months -the average patient loses 100 days from duty compared with 14 for malaria...
...Malaria discipline and DDT (TIME, March 6), have cut the incidence of malaria 75%. The rate is around 150 per 1,000 men per year overseas, a new low-so low in the continental U.S. that it does not show on the chart. "New agents," plus insecticides and repellents, might eliminate malaria, at least in the Western Hemisphere...
...from solved is nobody's fault in particular. Natives of the jungles learned through the centuries that the best clothing was no clothing; the best shoes, no shoes; the best rations, whatever grows in the jungles. But the white man, with his civilized stomach, his vulnerability to ringworm, malaria and leeches, is far from being acclimated...