Fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years / Sonia Shah.
Fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years / Sonia Shah.
Fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years / Sonia Shah.
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Publisher
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010.
Date
2010.
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614.532/2 , N614.532/14
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English
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Physical content
307 p. ; 20 cm.
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 spray-gun war -- The secret in the mosquito.
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Publisher
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2010.
Edition
[2010 ed.]
Place of Publication
New South Wales
Date Published
2010.
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Summary
Malaria is coming. It already infects 200 million new patients each year and kills 1 million. With climate change it is moving into new regions of the world, and scientists predict it will become endemic in northern Australia for the first time in the foreseeable future. Sonia Shah takes us on a tour through the strange biology of the mosquito and...
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Fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years / Sonia Shah.
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How malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years.
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First published: New York : Sarah Crichton Books.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-292) and index.
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614.532/2 , N614.532/14
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74Vv58ZZMgJd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv58ZZMgJd
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1742370489 (pbk.)
9781742370484 (pbk.)
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614.532
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991017800679702626
