The fever
Subtitle: how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years
By: Sonia Shah.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780374230012
Subjects: Malaria -- History; Malaria -- history
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Malaria at our doorstep; title: Birth of a killer; title: Swept in malaria's current; title: Malarial ecologies; title: Pharmacological failure; title: The karma of malaria; title: Scientific solutions; title: The disappeared; title: The spraygun war; title: The secret in the mosquito.