Word: malariae
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Cartels & Malaria...
...story of how two cartels, one Dutch, the other German, tied up the world's production of malaria drugs was aired in Washington last week, as Sterling Products announced that patents for producing a quinine substitute, once German-owned, would be released to U.S. drug firms...
...Malaria, most widespread and consuming of all human diseases, saps the strength of some 800,000,000 people throughout the world. Although there is no safe drug that directly kills malaria parasites (carried by the Anopheles mosquito), the chills & fever and other symptoms can be controlled by dosing with quinine, made from the bitter bark of the cinchona tree...
...Dutch Kina Bureau controlled 95% of the world's quinine supply (33,000,000 oz.), kept the price pegged at an exorbitant 67? an oz. With Java now fallen to the Japanese, the supply of quinine to the U.S. (which has about 3,000,000 cases of malaria in the Southern States) has been cut off. So have all shipments to Russia, India and South America...
...Treasury Department has stored up a two years' supply for the Western Hemisphere, but this stockpile may be considerably depleted by shipments to troops stationed in the tropics (malaria was a tremendous problem in Bataan...