In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause c l bre 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.

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Format: TradePaperback
Author: Shah, Sonia
ISBN: 9780312573010
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.32 x 0.87
Number Of Pages: 309
Publication Year: 2011

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

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