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...Mosquitoes carry the protozoa on their stomach linings and in their salivary glands. While in the mosquito the protozoa are in the sexual phase of their cycle; man's blood stream is the home of the asexual phases. In an active case of malaria a patient's blood teems with asexual forms which multiply in the red blood cells, burst out bringing poisons with them. A few sexual forms of protozoa are produced in the human body, but they cannot multiply sexually unless a mosquito carries them off, thus completing the cycle...
...worst of all was ta-pai-tzu (malaria). This was the worst malaria spot in the world. The deadly mosquitoes infested the gorge. Exhausted, underfed and ragged soldiers had neither mosquito nets for protection nor quinine to combat the fever. Casualties from malaria were higher than from combat. Apparently well men trudging along the mountain passes would suddenly flush, complain of the fire in their heads, then die. It was months before adequate quantities of quinine reached them...
...Britain's fast, agile, twin Rolls-Royce Mosquito bomber has a wingspread of 54 ft. (comparable to the U.S. P-38 fighter). It carries four 20-mm. cannon and four machine guns, is used largely for daylight raids. The plane's wooden fuselage, designed to conserve Britain's metal supply, has under some circumstances proved less vulnerable to gunfire than light metal...
...sleep with their jobs-gunners with their guns, drivers with their trucks and jeeps. Mosquito nets are a necessity against anopheles. It rains almost every night-weepy tropical rain that soaks into the bedrolls and seeps through tarpaulin. The nights are passed in wet chill and discomfort and the days in mud and filth that the Marines, who have been too busy fighting, have not had time to clean up. The Marines deal with filth on their clothes and bodies in the Unga River, which runs miraculously swift and clear through the occupied area. The swim in the Unga...
...Doctor Goes First. Standard sends its doctors into the jungles with geologists and wildcatters even before a new oilfield is opened. The medical unit picks the camp site, finds and tests a water supply, supervises disposal of sewage and garbage, directs eradication of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, flies and other pests. More than 100 Standard workers do nothing but fight malaria by draining swamps, oiling mosquito breeding grounds, etc. In the last six years, amebic dysentery, No. 2 cause of tropical sickness, has dropped from 27% to 5% among Standard employes...