Word: mumu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II Coggeshall put his earlier research to practical use by helping fight malaria at African air bases. Then he moved on to the Navy as consultant, fought a similar campaign against mumu, the filariasis that South Pacific G.I.s dreaded because they feared it would lead to elephantiasis or perhaps sterility. Coggeshall boosted their morale by showing that it did not. Since 1947 he has been head of the University of Chicago's division of the biological sciences, which embraces a medical school and nine hospitals...
Like most Polynesians, the Cook Islanders have a high tuberculosis rate, but Dr. Davis has found that they seem to have developed a resistance like that of Europeans: they form scar tissue and recover. They also have hookworm, and filariasis (the "mumu" of South Pacific G.I.s), which may reach the stage of elephantiasis...