Word: malariae
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...herds in the Southwest was caused by a microbe which the cattle tick took from sick beasts, nourished and transmitted to well beasts. Thus he proved and established the great principle of insect-borne transmission of infection which led to the understanding of and intelligent aggression against yellow fever, malaria, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, and dozens of comparable diseases...
...aged 20, and having caught malaria while studying at Stevens Institute in Hoboken, Charles R. was sent to Asia instead of to college. He "traveled seriously," spent three months following on foot a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks In Canton. He resolved "to devote my life to the study of Asia...
Died. Judge Jonathan Willis Martin, 74, president judge since 1901 of Philadelphia Court of Common Please No. 5, art partron, Spanish War veteran; of pneumonia; in Chesnut Hill, Pa. Paralyzed after an attack of malaria in the War, he was never inactive. He was well known at indoor and outdoor horse shows, always drove his oldtime four-in-hand...
...been estimated that directly or in directly . . . [malaria] is responsible for more than half of the deaths of the human race."?Professor Herbert Harold Waite of the University of Nebraska, in his Disease Prevention. However, prime U. S. killers are heart disease, cancer, pneumonia...
...Dutch transplanted cinchona trees to Java in 1854, now produce about 95% of the world's quinine. The British, from transplants to India, produce most of the rest. The Soviets, to economize on quinine, forbid its use as an appetizer, abortifacient or anything but a malaria antidote...