Word: malariae
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...conservative New England Journal of Medicine recently jumped on "the erroneous conception that malaria can be eradicated by means of a five-day treatment with the synthetic drug, atabrine." Attacking an article ("Enter Atabrine-Exit Malaria") written by Paul de Kruif in the Reader's Digest, the Journal pointed out that there is as yet no sure cure for malaria, that the disease and its problems are anything but simple...
...protozoa which cause the disease are carried by about 60 kinds of mosquitoes and are of four main varieties, each producing its own form of malaria: 1) Plasmodium vivax produces the mildest disease, benign tertian malaria; 2) P. malariae bring on quartan malaria, the most difficult to eradicate; 3) P. falciparum produces dangerous malignant tertian malaria; 4) P. ovale produces symptoms similar to those of benign tertian malaria...
These desperate homegoers will return to many villages that have been destroyed and towns that have been razed or are filled with strangers. They will bring with them orphans, old and insane folk. They will bring scurvy, trachoma, malaria, typhus, and dysentery from eating grass and earth. Starvation may be so prevalent that the cannibalism of 1919 may again strike eastern Europe. Railroads that should carry these desperate people will be totally disorganized; horses may all have been eaten. No reserves of fuel and clothing will be on hand; no state authorities will exist to guide them. China, Japan, Malaya...
...whose many good intentions are soon destroyed by the dry rot and the charms of scheming Tondelayo (Lamarr). As soon as Carlson starts laying in "many silks and bangles" for the gold digging Tondelayo his days are numbered, but before he returns to civilization with a good case of malaria he manages to marry the native minx and thereby snap a few more of boss Pidgeon's nerves. Carlson, Pidgeon, and Frank Morgan (the liquor soaked company doctor) deserve credit for their efforts to add a bit of plausibility to this much over rated story, but the odds are against...
...being waged with modern weapons. Health stations had been set up far inland. More than 1,500 men were working in the Special Public Health Service, the Government organization set up to protect the workers' health. Two million tablets of atabrin had already been distributed to combat malaria. Notices telling how to guard against the jungle's dangers were being tacked on trees in the farthest jungle land by men who took small supply boats up the inland waterways. The Health Service last week reported that it was prepared to take care of 3,000 men and women...