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Fever, The: How Malaria Has Ruled Humank by Sonia Shah
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Fever, The: How Malaria Has Ruled Humank by Sonia Shah

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In The Fever, journalist Sonia Shah sets out to address this concern, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of malaria and its influence on human lives. Through the centuries, she finds, we’ve invested our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, and invariably those hopes have been dashed. 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. 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.

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One is often led to believe that mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and its companion diseases, dengue and chikungunya, are backward and rural diseases that have very little to do with urbanization and development. However, it is often just the reverse. These diseases have been around for over 500,000 years and continue to flourish even as we continue to progress as a race.

About the Author

Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prize-winning author. Her writing on science, politics and human rights has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American and elsewhere. She has also been featured on CNN, RadioLab, Fresh Air and TED.com, where her talk, ‘Three Reasons We Still Haven’t Gotten Rid of Malaria’, has been viewed by over 10,00,000 people around the world.

Additional information

Dimensions 20 × 14 × 4 cm
Binding

Paperback
ISBN

978-0143442455
Language

English
Pages

240
Publication date

13 December 2017
Publisher

‎ Penguin
Writer

Sonia Shah

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