Word: malariae
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...Guinea, jungle-wise Australians mopped up the Huon Peninsula. Along rugged, malaria-ridden trails, with the help of Matilda tanks, they pushed converging columns toward Jap outposts. Their immediate objective: to clear the enemy from the hinterland of Finschhaven, the port captured almost two months ago by a bold amphibious stroke (TIME, Oct. 4). From Finschhaven some 70 miles of blue water lead to Jap-held New Britain: across that island's curving 300 miles lies Rabaul...
...Malaria and shock from Guadalcanal, where he won Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift's citation of "an ideal Marine," dictated Lou Diamond's more pedestrian assignment...
...soldier whom swashbuckling Georgie Patton struck was a volunteer; he had been in the Army four years. He had enlisted when he was 18, had served in both the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns. The preliminary diagnosis turned out to be incomplete. He was also suffering from malaria, had a high fever...
Jungle War. "The Japanese and the jungles-both are implacable. There is rain, a soggy, degrading heat, and always the dysentery and malaria. . . . Supplies for men and aircraft are scarce. . . . The preliminary skirmishes for Burma . . . are already going on. American-trained Chinese troops are clearing the way for the new Ledo Road . . . from India...
...Tropical malaria (full name: malignant tertian malaria), the most deadly form of the disease (TIME, Feb. 1). Right now, U.S. mosquitoes are free...