Word: malariae
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...dream, Kingsley Fairbridge told not even his father until he was 21 and ready for Oxford. One of the first Rhodes Scholars, he went in for boxing in the belief that through athletic distinction he might gain a hearing for his plan. Although dogged all his life by malaria, he won his Blue and one night in 1909 the Oxford Colonial Club gave him his hearing, endorsed his plan...
...Georgia: malaria control in Dublin; clearing woodland in Cairo; converting a depot into a common house in Wrens; opening, clearing and straightening the channel of Tanyard Stream in Barnesville; a fertilizer plant in Catoosa County; repairs on court house in Donalsonville; paving sidewalk in Tallapoosa; sanitation pit project of 400 units in Cairo; renovation of school in Blakely; bridge in Thomson; road improvement in Trenton...
Alabama: rebuilding storm sewers in Montgomery; malaria control in Mobile; cleaning the Cahaba River in Bibb County; steel bridge over Copeland Creek in Madison; double treatment asphalt street paving in Greenville; improving cemetery drives in Gadsden; a reform school in Mt. Meigs; a swimming pool in Columbiana...
...school. Cholera wiped $1,500 worth of prize hogs from the school's books in 1932. But Dr. House is proud of the fact that his school was the first to introduce to Greece the gambusia minnow which devours mosquito larvae. These fish have already nearly wiped malaria from the Salonika plains. Some of the breeder fish came from Rome; others were imported in a goldfish bowl from New Orleans by a messenger who spent long seasick hours cradling the precious aquarium in his arms...
...knocked out of him on the boat. He was horribly seasick. The stewards bullied him. His cabinmate bullied him, made him sleep on deck while he entertained a girl below. The reality of the tropics was so much too much for him that he immediately came down with malaria. His fellow-planters thought he was awful; ragged him for a while, then let him severely alone...