The fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years / Sonia Shah
By: Shah, Sonia.
2011Description: 309 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780312573010.Subject(s): Malaria -- History | Oberlin College author -- Class of 1990 -- Shah, SoniaGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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"A Sarah Crichton book."
Previously published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-294) and index
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 -- The secret in the mosquito
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
"In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have opened their pocketbooks in hopes of eradicating the scourge. How does a parasitic disease that we've known how to prevent for more than a century still infect three hundred million people every year, killing nearly one million of them? In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer this question, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity."--P. [4] of cover