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The Making of a Tropical Disease - A Short History of Malaria (Paperback, second edition)
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The Making of a Tropical Disease - A Short History of Malaria (Paperback, second edition)
Series: Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
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A global history of malaria that traces the natural and social
forces that have shaped its spread and made it deadly, while
limiting efforts to eliminate it. Malaria sickens hundreds of
millions of people-and kills nearly a half a million-each year.
Despite massive efforts to eradicate the disease, it remains a
major public health problem in poorer tropical regions. But malaria
has not always been concentrated in tropical areas. How did malaria
disappear from other regions, and why does it persist in the
tropics? From Russia to Bengal to Palm Beach, Randall M. Packard's
far-ranging narrative shows how the history of malaria has been
driven by the interplay of social, biological, economic, and
environmental forces. The shifting alignment of these forces has
largely determined the social and geographical distribution of the
disease, including its initial global expansion, its subsequent
retreat to the tropics, and its current persistence. Packard argues
that efforts to control and eliminate malaria have often ignored
this reality, relying on the use of biotechnologies to fight the
disease. Failure to address the forces driving malaria transmission
have undermined past control efforts. Describing major changes in
both the epidemiology of malaria and efforts to control the
disease, the revised edition of this acclaimed history, which was
chosen as the 2008 End Malaria Awards Book of the Year in its
original printing, * examines recent efforts to eradicate malaria
following massive increases in funding and political commitment; *
discusses the development of new malaria-fighting biotechnologies,
including long-lasting insecticide-treated nets, rapid diagnostic
tests, combination artemisinin therapies, and genetically modified
mosquitoes; * explores the efficacy of newly developed vaccines;
and * explains why eliminating malaria will also require addressing
the social forces that drive the disease and building health
infrastructures that can identify and treat the last cases of
malaria. Authoritative, fascinating, and eye-opening, this short
history of malaria concludes with policy recommendations for
improving control strategies and saving lives.
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