Word: malariae
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...Building feeder roads in the country (not main highways), widening and repaving streets in cities were the chief jobs. About 1,200,000 CWA employes now work on such projects. Other projects: repairing and decorating schoolhouses and public buildings, improving public parks by building paths, control of pests (malaria, cattle ticks, etc.), building sewers and improving sanitation ditches...
During military services Washington contracted dysentery and malaria, which recurred in later life. Shortly after he assumed the Presidency a carbuncle developed on his hip, obliged him to lie on one side for six weeks, and to have his coach altered so he could ride half-recumbent...
Summary and Conclusions. The health impairment in this case may be considered as affecting especially three systems; namely, the gastrointestinal system, as exemplified by the attacks of dysentery; the circulatory system, as a result of the persistent malaria, and the respiratory system, as shown by the susceptibility to colds in the head, throat and chest. All signs seem to point to the respiratory system as presenting the place of least resistance of the body...
Correction Hospital, where Manhattan segregates some addicts, ought to show some malaria picked up this way, reasoned Dr. Norris and sent an investigator there last week. Five cases of malaria showed up. None seemed to be the original carrier of the disease...
...Bowery bum died of malaria in Manhattan. He must have just come from the tropics, reasoned Chief Medical Examiner Charles Norris, and casually noted that the derelict had been a narcotic addict. Another Bowery bum died of malaria, and another, and another. Dr. Norris called his assistants together, ordered: "There's a carrier loose down around Park Row. Watch...