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ALSO BY SONIA SHAH
 
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THE FEVER
THE FEVER
HOW MALARIAHAS RULED HUMANKINDFOR 500,000 YEARS 
 
SONIA SHAH
SARAH CRICHTON BOOKSFARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX NEW YORK
 
 
 
SARAH CRICHTON BOOKSFarrar, Straus and Giroux18 West 18th Street, New York 10011
Copyright © 2010 by Sonia ShahAll rights reservedDistributed in Canada by D&M Publishers, Inc.Printed in the United States of AmericaFirst edition, 2010
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Shah, Sonia.
The fever : how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years / Sonia Shah.—1st ed.
     p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-23001-2 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Malaria—History. I. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Malaria—history. WC 750 S525f 2010]
RA644.M2S46 2010614.5'32—dc22
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Title-page illustration: A Man Being Attacked by Insects, from Hortus Sanitatis, 1491, courtesy of the National Library of Medicine
 
 
Man ploughs the sea like a leviathan, he soars through the air like an eagle; his voice circles the world in a moment, his eyes pierce the heavens; he moves mountains, he makes the desert to bloom; he has planted his flag at the north pole and the south; yet millions of men each year are destroyed because they fail to outwit a mosquito.
—PAUL F. RUSSELL, 1931 
CONTENTS 
  1
MALARIA AT OUR DOORSTEP
  2
BIRTH OF A KILLER
  3
SWEPT IN MALARIA’S CURRENT
  4
MALARIAL ECOLOGIES
  5
PHARMACOLOGICAL FAILURE
  6
THE KARMA OF MALARIA
  7
SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS
  8
THE DISAPPEARED: HOW MALARIA VANISHED FROM THE WEST
  9
THE SPRAY-GUN WAR
10
THE SECRET IN THE MOSQUITO
 
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
 
 
THE FEVER
1. MALARIA AT OUR DOORSTEP 
The view through the mosquito net is blurry, but I can see the thick skin of grime on the leading edge of each blade of the ceiling fan as it slowly whirs around, keening alarmingly. This is how it was every summer when I visited my grandmother’s house in southern India. While my cousins snore on the bed mats laid across the floor beside me, glistening bodies bathed in the warm night breeze, my sleeping mat is ensconced in a hot, gauzy cage. The mosquitoes descend from the darkened corners of the whitewashed room and perch menacingly on the taut netting, ready to exploit any flicker of movement from their prey within. It is hard to fall asleep knowing they are there, watching me, but e ............

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