Word: malariae
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...having a nervous breakdown!" famed Floyd Gibbons was all but unrecognizable when last photographed (see cut) except for his trademark, the patch across one blind eye. Others were arriving in Manhattan, London and Paris heart-shocked by the altitude; nausea-shocked by the fleas, flies and filth; sleepless from malaria and dysentery; jittering and at such low ebb that their journalistic employers sent them to secluded rest homes. On the subject of altitude able United Press European News Manager Webb Miller vividly said: "You would lie down, thoroughly fatigued, your heart would palpitate and you would get scared, thinking...
...Manchurian War in a battered Ford, was last week riding muleback with the Ethiopian army in the East. By means of courier to the wire-less station at Harar, he reported that he was full of quinine, covered with flea bites, that Ethiopian soldiers all around him were catching malaria...
First correspondent in Ethiopia, and first to die, was the Chicago Tribune's able Wilfred Courtenay ("Will") Barber, 31, who reached the country in June, sickened month ago in the "yellow hell" of Ogaden. Last week he died of tertian malaria, nephritis and influenza, was buried on a hilltop in Addis Ababa...
...refused him land, he turned to Australia. There, on a capital of £2,000 supplied mostly by Colonial Club members, the first Fairbridge Farm School was started in 1912. In 1924 when it was firmly established on a 3,200-acre farm near Pinjarra, Kingsley Fairbridge died of malaria...
...swore off liquor, has been a teetotaler ever since. (There are few men who in 18 years enjoyed more whiskey hilarity, exhaled more whiskey halitosis, suffered more whiskey headaches or caused more whiskey heartaches and tears.) For a while he sold real estate in California, almost died of malaria, ran a vaudeville tent-show, opened a gambling house in Peru...