Word: malariae
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...loss of Burma deprived India of 1,500,000 tons of rice. This year there were crop failures in several large provinces. In Punjab, where crops were good, they rotted because too many farmers came down with malaria at harvest time. All over the subcontinent hoarding was predicted by farmers, wholesalers, retailers and consumers who expected greater shortages and higher prices. Railways were so overburdened with war traffic that it was difficult to move grain from areas of plenty to those in need...
Since July, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers have clung to the east bank of the malaria-infested Salween (TIME, Dec. 7). For months they have guarded the pocked and broken upper half of the Burma Road which still belongs to them. In the first few days of the fighting in the gorge of the Wu-ti Ho last week they turned back the prongs of the Jap advance...
...figured he threw about 300 lead punches. Out of ammunition, the men in the crater crouched and prayed. At dawn the prize fighter jumped out under cover of a cloud of smoke and, "half crawling and half walking," helped get the wounded to the rear. His purse: shell shock, malaria, minor shrapnel wounds, a corporal's rank, recommendation for a distinguished service award. His only complaint: "No referee to break the clinches...
...worst of all was ta-pai-tzu (malaria). This was the worst malaria spot in the world. The deadly mosquitoes infested the gorge. Exhausted, underfed and ragged soldiers had neither mosquito nets for protection nor quinine to combat the fever. Casualties from malaria were higher than from combat. Apparently well men trudging along the mountain passes would suddenly flush, complain of the fire in their heads, then die. It was months before adequate quantities of quinine reached them...
...rice and fish, that only a month's supply of beans was available. In San Juan, prices soared: the cheapest kind of beef meat sold for hamburger at 59? a pound, small brown eggs were three for a quarter, onions 40? a pound. Quinine to use against malaria was gone; druggists worried over the dwindling stock of substitutes. The WPA estimated that of 320,000 students in the public schools, 200,000 are suffering from malnutrition...