Word: malariae
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...some areas every third soldier has malaria...
Under the microscope, blood from a victim of malaria is as vivid as a southern sunset. In mild malaria, the red blood cells appear speckled with pink. In violent forms of the disease, the corpuscles darken to dusky copper, mottled with purple. These changing hues show the progress of the fight between invading malarial parasites and the body's defending blood cells...
With a special quartz red light. Dr. Melvin H. Knisely of the University of Chicago (on loan to the University of Tennessee) has taken colored movies of the Battle of Malaria. This week, at the Louisville meeting of the Southern Medical Association, Dr. Knisely showed his movies-the first ever taken of disease in a living bloodstream. For his stars Dr. Knisely had chosen five malarial monkeys. He anesthetized them, exposed their abdominal cavities. Through the microscope's eyepiece he photographed the changes in the tiny blood vessels on the abdominal lining...
...Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mosquito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimetre in one bout of malaria...
...Clear malaria out of the Amazon basin, settle hardworking, nonmigratory families there with Government...