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This paper, adapted from a talk given in honour of Professor Malcolm Molyneux in Liverpool in September 2008, reviews the rise and fall of clinically important forms of drug-resistant falciparum malaria and considers how lessons learned from studying the evolution of drug-resistant malaria can be applied to efforts to prevent and deter resistance. About the parasite’s convoluted shape shifting through mosquito and vertebrate hosts, Shah writes, “It’s sort of like robbing a bank while stealing a car. The image you are trying to upload is either too big or is an unacceptable format. ( )Tj With distinguished prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity. (from spiking salt with chloroquine to spraying DDT). endobj

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Shah, who has previously taken on big oil and big pharma, tells the story of history’s biggest killer of human beings, the malaria parasite. Plowe, C. of malaria, which has thwarted invaders and sapped empires, one mosquito Feedback | This is my personal blog, where I share about the people I meet, the books I'm reading, and what I'm learning.

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A “tour-de-force history of malaria…riveting.” —New York Times, Long-listed for the Royal Society Winton Prize, Selected by the New York Times as one of “7 Essential Books About Pandemics“. From a historical perspective, our relevant information may be classified into 4 phases: (1) disease documentation in ancient and medieval scripts as far back as 2000-3000 bce; (2) discovery of the parasites, their life cycles, and clinical correlates by European clinicians working in African and Asian colonies during the second half of the 19th century; (3) discovery and characterization of the renal manifestations of monoparasitic infections during the second half of the 20th century; and (4) recognition of the confounding effects of coinfection with bacteria, viruses, or other parasites. Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. /T1_0 1 Tf Think again. . It may, however, have antimalarial activity in numerous human patients with concomitant Pseudomonas infections.

If you want to read just one book about malaria, The Fever is probably the best choice.

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Ending it, as she says, is tough and unlikely to happen in our lifetimes. It’s a compelling account of a disease that remains out of sight — and thus out of mind — for most Americans, even as it slowly tightens its grip on other parts of the world. More than just a scientific (and medical) overview of the disease, the book also very skillfully examines many of the social, cultural and anthropological reasons behind the lack of success in achieving its eradication. -20.72689 0 Td The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years By Sonia Shah Hardcover, 320 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux List price: $26. S

The lesson for today’s malaria fighter is that those who underestimate this complexity and attack malaria with simple, one-size-fits-all solutions will be made to look naive — if not foolish — by future investigative journalists.

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- 56 0 obj By the time we get to the part where celebrities and politicians are pouring money into the distribution of insecticide-treated nets, we know what’s coming — the bubble is going to be popped: the complex interplay between parasites, mosquitoes, and humans confounds experts once again, while underappreciated anthropological research reveals that the reasons why people do or don’t use nets are highly variable, and just as is the case with mosquito behavior and malaria epidemiology, locale-specific solutions are required. Copyright 2010 Gale, Cengage Learning.

The exploits and personalities of Patrick Manson, Ronald Ross, William Gorgas, Paul Russell, and others are vividly described, in all their visionary brilliance and petulant vanity, based on historical accounts, memoirs, and interviews with wise old-timers like Jose Najera of the WHO and the late Andrew Spielman of Harvard.

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Scientific American: Could Monkeypox Take Over Where Smallpox Left Off? Malaria is in vogue. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wartimes and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria’s jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. (December 1, 2010):

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