Word: panafrica
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...Neither quinine nor atabrine will suppress all infections. Among British forces near Panafrica's stations, about 30% of those on 0.3 gr. of quinine hydrochloride daily, and 23% of those taking 0.4 gr. of atabrine dihydrochloride weekly, developed clinical malaria (incidentally, "no toxic effects from atabrine were noted"). Panafrica had to abandon Accra, a bad malaria spot on Africa's Gold Coast. In spite of quinine, in about two months 46 out of 284 men occupying partially screened quarters had malaria...
...After Panafrica's mosquito-proofing be gan, malaria was almost completely routed. In September 1942, only one man in 1,400 acquired malaria at an air station; in October, only three out of 1,820. Most striking lesson was the experience of two groups in the same compound less than a quarter of a mile apart. One had almost no protection against mosquitoes and depended on quinine. The other group had quarters "which were well mosquito-proofed. . . . Their quarters were also sprayed with an insecticide each evening and each man donned long trousers, a long-sleeved shirt and mosquito...
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