The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria by Randall M. Packard

The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria

Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease

Randall M. Packard

320 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced

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Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of people—and kills one to three million—each year. Despite massive efforts to eradicate the disease, it remains a major public health problem in poorer tropical regions. But malaria has not always been concent...

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