Word: malariae
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...produced something very like a slap-up Chinese feast out of army rations dropped from the air and from the produce of the savage hillmen's gardens. They are wonderful people, the Chinese. I take off my hat to them every time. Now I'm down with malaria and am having a few days' rest. When this work's over I'm looking forward to seeing you and China again...
McFarlane also inspected a group of doctors from the Harvard Medical School who, he says, "have been doing remarkable work" on the control of malaria in the Gold Coast Colony. By such measures as moving native villages they have reduced the incidence of malaria to less than one percent...
...Knowledge of the causes of tooth decay is no better in 1942 than was knowledge of pellagra and malaria (also latitudinally distributed diseases...
...method of fighting malaria-commonest disease on earth-is being used to protect the residents of Delhi, India's capital, and the U.S. troops quartered there from the epidemic now raging among the 100,000,000 people of northwest India. Gangs of trained workmen go from house to house all day spraying a mixture of pyrethrum insecticide (5%) and kerosene (95%) on the walls and rafters where the night-flying mosquitoes rest. The sprayers are all lads of good caste, so no highborn Hindu will be outraged by their attentions to his residence, outhouse and cowshed, each of which...
...advantage of the new technique, which was developed during the last three years by Rockefeller Foundation scientists in India, is its cheapness. Cost runs about 8? per person per season, whereas "permanent" malaria-control measures-draining marshes, filling ponds, etc.-would cost about $1.50 per person per season. And the rice fields where mosquitoes breed cannot be drained or oiled...