Word: malariae
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...suffered from malaria, dysentery or beriberi...
...seemed cheerful. Now & then his eyes twinkled; sometimes he joked. But all this was deceptive. Mohandas Gandhi's shriveled body was racked by malaria. His pulse lagged. He had moments of delirium. He was 73. Death, which had walked beside him through many a fast and many a jail, again stood close. Or so, at least, it seemed last week to the British rulers of India...
...Lice. Dr. Nikolic, another Partisan surgeon, is a little, weary man with a fighter's heart and a scholar's mind (in 1926 he held a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study malaria). In 1943 the Germans put him in a concentration camp, held him there nine months until the Partisans traded a German officer for him. Among the Partisans his fight has been as much against disease as against wounds...
They fought as long as human strength endured. The Japanese enveloped their right flank. The orphans tried to counterattack. They were starved, exhausted, sick with malaria, beriberi, dysentery. They had fought without relief for three months. Skinny wrote a final entry in his diary: "Bataan is disintegrating." The counter attack failed...
...good that Europeans prefer them to white doctors (in the islands there are about 20 white doctors, 200 N.M.P.s for 1,000,000 people). But N.M.P.s' chief job is to care for their own people. Native diseases are bad: yaws (a childhood skin disease caused by a spirochete), malaria and blackwater fever, filariasis (worm infestation which frequently ends as elephantiasis). The imported diseases are often worse: diphtheria, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, leprosy, measles (which is often fatal to South Pacific natives who have not yet acquired immunity). The N.M.P.s vaccinate, fight mosquitoes, teach latrine building, operate for elephantiasis, give quinine, deliver...