All 14 Uses of
malaria
in
Catch-22
- In the bed on Yossarian's right, still lying amorously on his belly, was the startled captain with malaria in his blood and a mosquito bite on his ass.†
Chpt 1
- He wondered if he were suffering from malaria, or, worse, from an overdose of Atabrine tablets.†
Chpt 10 *
- His system was sturdy enough to survive a case of someone else's malaria or influenza with scarcely any discomfort at all.†
Chpt 17
- 'I wonder what he did to deserve it,' the warrant officer with malaria and a mosquito bite on his ass lamented after Nurse Cramer had read her thermometer and discovered that the soldier in white was dead.†
Chpt 17
- 'That's what I mean,' the warrant officer with malaria continued.†
Chpt 17
- But malaria?†
Chpt 17
- Malaria?†
Chpt 17
- Who can explain malaria as a consequence of fornication?†
Chpt 17
- 'But I've still got somebody else's malaria.†
Chpt 17
- 'Now, if we can just find out who my malaria belongs to we'd be all set.†
Chpt 17
- It's not that I've got anything against malaria.†
Chpt 17
- I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.†
Chpt 17
- Why should I have somebody else's malaria and you have my dose of clap?'†
Chpt 17
- If you want to catch malaria, I guess it's your business, isn't it?'†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(malaria) a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that, while nonexistent in wealthy nations, strikes hundreds of millions of people a year in developing nations -- killing hundreds of thousands each year
more technically: an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever