Word: vivax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fatal than other forms. But the blood parasites, which emerge from the tissues only once, can be knocked out with the old standby, quinine, or wartime atabrine, or postwar Paludrine, Camoquin and chloroquine. The same drugs have done a good job of suppressing the fever flare-ups of relapsing ("vivax") malaria, which occur when the parasites are in the blood...
While they were in the lines and exposed to Korea's vivax-carrying mosquitoes, the troops got chloroquine (after the first few, disorganized weeks). It worked fine as long as they took it regularly. Even though they were bitten, the men had few feverish attacks. But they still had malaria. When they started home, the medics went to work on them aboard troop-laden transports. This time their weapon was primaquine, developed in the laboratories of Columbia University. These returned soldiers are being checked for relapses. There have been few, according to reports available now (but still incomplete...