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

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

Author/creator	Shah, Sonia
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York : Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010.
Description	307 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Malaria--History. Malaria--history.

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 -- The spraygun war -- The secret in the mosquito.
Abstract	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. (p. [243]-292) and index.
LCCN	2010002374
ISBN	9780374230012 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0374230013 (alk. paper)
Standard identifier#	40018096087

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Laupus	Books - Stacks	WC 750 S525F 2010	✔ Available	Place Hold