Word: malariae
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...Italian lake." Italy cared little about the grapes, cattle and lumber that grew on Istria's terraced plateau; Italy wanted a naval base. But when the Italian Government took a closer look at its new citizens it found that nine out of ten of them had symptoms of malaria. The plateau was full of semi-stagnant ponds where mosquitoes bred and rose in clouds...
...gobble all the mosquito "wigglers" they can hold. Italy bought 200,000 of them every year from U. S. fish dealers and dumped them into the Istrian ponds. They gobbled their weight in "wigglers." Fortnight ago the Italo-German Institute of Marine Biology announced that the gambusia had gobbled malaria clean out of Istria...
...traveler in Mexico, the West Indies, Central and South America need guard against. General advice was, as for travel anywhere, to take precautionary inoculations against smallpox and typhoid. Often threatening are bacillary and amebic dysentery, typhus, bubonic plague (a milder form than in the Orient), yellow fever, malignant malaria, and in the seaports venereal disease. Country people exhibit comparatively little venereal disease. On the other hand, mainly because they go barefoot and tend to wash little, they are subject to the tropical fevers and sores. Oroya fever and Andean Wart are peculiar to a small area of the Peruvian highlands...
...explorer adventures are a mark of incompetence. "Three Kingdoms of Indo-China" is the chronicle of an expedition that spent six months in one of the least known but most glamorous corners of the world and except for the tragic death of one of its members by malaria, the experiences of those who undertook it were exciting events rather than adventures in the derogatory sense...
...Clinical Pathologists), Dr. Frederick Karl Kislig (syphilologist) and Edwin C. Sittler (one of Mr. Kettering's men). Paul de Kruif. writing bacteriologist, originally gave them the idea of using the radiotherm to treat syphilis. He thought the precisely regulated fevers it generates would be better than the malaria-induced fevers used by Nobel Laureate J. Wagner Jauregg...