Word: malariae
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...khaki. He has told of young Quizz West (William Prince), a farm boy who leaves his girl (Mary Rolfe) and his family to become a soldier. Quizz goes to training camp and then to war, and, on a tiny island in the Pacific, is part of a gallant, malaria-ridden remnant that face war's horror, enact its heroism and succumb to its fate...
Contradiction. The supposedly transitional machinery of self-government which the British set up as the Indian Legislature Assembly met in Delhi (now swept by malaria). The members, weighted in favor of Government appointees and Europeans (39 Congress party members were in jail), argued turgidly. Gaunt, scholarly, widely hated Home Member Sir Reginald Maxwell inadvertently contradicted Winston Churchill's claim of "reassuring" conditions (TIME, Sept. 21) by an account of railways damaged and of Bengal Province having been for a while "almost completely cut off from northern India." Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Columbia University-educated Untouchable leader, claimed strikes...
Haugland turned up at a remote mission station on the southeast coast. Emaciated, exhausted, delirious and sick with malaria, he was flown to a Port Moresby hospital, where physicians predicted his recovery. How he had got through one of the earth's most rugged regions without benefit of maps, food, weapons, or military preconditioning, no one could tell. Haugland was too sick...
...British officers in Cairo. They got it from captured German troops. The story: dour, boot-tough Marshal Erwin Rommel was ill, had returned to Germany already, or was waiting to be relieved of his command. An Italian report put Rommel in the Stuttgart Tropical Disease Clinic, sick abed with malaria...
...Doctor Goes First. Standard sends its doctors into the jungles with geologists and wildcatters even before a new oilfield is opened. The medical unit picks the camp site, finds and tests a water supply, supervises disposal of sewage and garbage, directs eradication of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, flies and other pests. More than 100 Standard workers do nothing but fight malaria by draining swamps, oiling mosquito breeding grounds, etc. In the last six years, amebic dysentery, No. 2 cause of tropical sickness, has dropped from 27% to 5% among Standard employes...