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Author Harrison, Gordon A.

Title Mosquitoes, malaria, and man : a history of the hostilities since 1880 / Gordon Harrison ; [line drawings by Wynne Brown]
Edition First edition
Published New York : Dutton, [1978]
©1978

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Description viii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Caliban's curse -- Laveran's germ -- Ronald Ross, the unlikely hero -- The mosquito theory -- Follow the flagellum -- Diversions -- The bite -- Dapple-wing -- Mosquito day -- The flagellum caught -- Pigeons and sparrows -- Ross's cycle -- The Roman quarrel -- The three lives of Plasmodium -- "A war of extermination ..." -- " ... Wherever economically possible" -- Appreciation of the enemy -- Victory in Panama -- Italy and Koch's way -- Rockefeller and the American way -- A preference for pig -- Epidemic -- Toward total war -- "An almost perfect insecticide" -- Eradication -- India-Model for the world -- Relapse
Summary Malaria is resurgent, most tragically in Asia where the battle had seemed almost won. In India, malaria cases, which were reduced to 50,000 in 1961, soared in 1977 to 30 million or more. Classically one of the greatest if least spectacular of the killers, malaria may become that once more. What happened and why are the subject of this history, which begins with the discoveries that precipitated hostilities and traces the ups and downs of the battles that followed. - p. 1
Analysis Geschichte 1880-1970
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 297-306
Subject Ross, Ronald, Sir, 1857-1932.
Malaria -- Prevention -- History.
Malaria -- Prevention.
Mosquitoes -- Control.
Mosquitoes as carriers of disease.
Malaria -- Transmission.
Mosquitoes -- Control -- History.
Mosquitoes.
Malaria -- history.
Malaria -- prevention & control.
Mosquito Control -- history.
LC no. 77021725
ISBN 0525160256