Malaria deaths occur where political power endsSandhya Srinivasan
The type I strain is the most virulent and lethal in laboratory mice, infecting doses from a single living organism. The virulence of type II and type III was weaker than that of type I55. A fourth clonal lineage, known as type 12, has been found in North America, commonly in ...
That a Swedish botanist came to hold a sample is due to its potential as a remedy for fevers, a serious concern of the European powers whose hold over tropical lands was still tenuous while their colonists struggled with malaria and other unfamiliar afflictions. The tree’s Latin name celebrat...
Also known as wild feverfew, wild quinine (Parthenium integrifolium) has a long history of medicinal use by Native Americans and the US Army. During World War I, wild quinine was used as a substitute for the bark of the Cinchona tree—as the active ingredient of quinine used to treat mal...
Does fear or faith motivate you? As a human most likely your answer is probably both, even if it’s just faith in yourself or someone else or a process. If you are faith based, then ideally faith weighs in more, but let’s be honest we still allow fear to run things a lot, and...
7 The people were evacuated to the malaria infested parts of Ishigaki and Iriomote islands where over half the population was infected and almost a quarter of the population died. While they were evacuated under the pretense of safety from US raids, it is now thought that the Japanese military...