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The fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years

text The fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years

Summary

Traces the centuries-long battle to treat and prevent malaria in numerous regions of the world while revealing how hundreds of millions of people are infected annually in spite of available preventions.

Contents
Malaria at our doorstep -- Birth of a killer -- Swept in malaria's current -- Malarial ecologies -- Pharmacological failure -- The karma of malaria -- Scientific solutions -- The disappeared: how malaria vanished from the west -- The spray gun war... Read more
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Description
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2010

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 614.5 SHA in Adult Non-fiction Available

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