Word: malariae
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Army, which has kept its malaria troubles a deep secret, last week let some good news out: the north Burma campaign was greatly helped by the drug atabrine, which kept troops on their feet for at least 80 days and let only 20% break down after that. Added to the earlier report that the malaria rate in New Guinea had been cut 95% during the year (TIME, June 26), this indicated that the disease can no longer stop armies in their tracks...
Besides atabrine, the Army's "malaria discipline" includes screens, rolled-down sleeves, tucked-in trousers, mosquito repellents, puddle and swamp drainage...
Stilwell tallied more than 20,000 additional Japs killed by his forces. Allied casualties for the two campaigns were 10.000 killed, 3,000 missing, 27,000 wounded-but a quarter of a million had fallen as temporary casualties to tropical diseases, mainly malaria and dysentery...
...Francisco Correspondents Robert de Roos and Fritz Goodwin hotfooted it to the Shoemaker and Naval Hospitals, spent hours talking with some of the just-arrived typhus-and malaria-ridden boys who weren't quite up to the trip across the country yet-sent a long wire about the curious, unexpected things they wanted most to know about ("What's this new leg paint the girls are wearing?"-"What's old Brooklyn look like...
...Burma, which already had one such unit (Wingate's Raiders), had less than its share of good jungle troops. By this summer, the Marauders had carried the ball for Uncle Joe for three harrowing months of action, were shot through with malaria and other fevers, exhausted, suffering from malnutrition. They were sent to rear-base hospitals and rest camps. But there was no move to send them home. The virus of disaffection began to work...