Word: malariae
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...island is not "swampish"; it is dry, in fact, too dry for its own good. For years both the Insular and Federal Governments have been carrying out a campaign against malaria by draining and filling in the few swamps, and except in a few places malaria has been greatly controlled. Yellow fever has never been prevalent...
...striking across unknown trails where the only sounds were the screaming of hordes of unseen monkeys and the slitherings of the brightest green poisonous snakes. Alternately scorched by terrific heat under which several of our party faint ed, and drenched by tropical rains, our ranks were affected by dysentery, malaria, heat, exhaustion. Some had sores from infected blisters; others were suffering from lack of sleep. But all of us were safe...
Though we were ragged and weary, so thin that rings won't stay on our fingers, some of us with malaria, dysentery or infected feet, yet everyone was in comparatively good health for so arduous a trip...
...ammunition was about gone, the food had run out. The wounded, crowded into the catacombs of The Rock, cried out for help that no one could give. Malaria had seized the garrison; gaunt cannoneers, flushed with fever, stood at their stations beside pieces that had to be served with telltale economy...
...tropical jungles of both hemispheres where Pan Am is pioneering, one American in three was recently down with malaria at one time. Pan Am had to bring in doctors, build sewers, set up purifiers, etc., in order...