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Authors: Sonia Shah

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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

 

 

 

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THE FEVER

THE FEVER

HOW MALARIA
HAS RULED HUMANKIND
FOR 500,000 YEARS

 
 

SONIA SHAH

SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX NEW YORK

 

 

 

SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2010 by Sonia Shah
All rights reserved
Distributed in Canada by D&M Publishers, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
First edition, 2010

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Shah, Sonia.

The fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years / Sonia Shah.—1st ed.

     p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-374-23001-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1. Malaria—History. I. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Malaria—history. WC 750 S525f 2010]

RA644.M2S46 2010
614.5'32—dc22

2010002374

Designed by Abby Kagan

www.fsgbooks.com

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Title-page illustration:
A Man Being Attacked by Insects
, from
Hortus Sanitatis
, 1491, courtesy of the National Library of Medicine

 

 

Man ploughs the sea like a leviathan, he soars through the air like an eagle; his voice circles the world in a moment, his eyes pierce the heavens; he moves mountains, he makes the desert to bloom; he has planted his flag at the north pole and the south; yet millions of men each year are destroyed because they fail to outwit a mosquito.


PAUL F. RUSSELL
, 1931

 
CONTENTS
 

  
1
MALARIA AT OUR DOORSTEP

  
2
BIRTH OF A KILLER

  
3
SWEPT IN MALARIA’S CURRENT

  
4
MALARIAL ECOLOGIES

  
5
PHARMACOLOGICAL FAILURE

  
6
THE KARMA OF MALARIA

  
7
SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS

  
8
THE DISAPPEARED: HOW MALARIA VANISHED FROM THE WEST

  
9
THE SPRAY-GUN WAR

10
THE SECRET IN THE MOSQUITO

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