malaria

Presents a comprehensive history of human interaction with malaria and includes discussions on papal involvement in the search for a cure, the discovery of quinine, and the work of Jesuit priests.

Outlines the history of malaria, highlighting how improvement in prevention and treatment have affected the disease's impact on the world's population.

Mimi, a young girl living in an African village, witnesses the benefits of basic health care in her community.

Describes the symptoms, causes, and treatments of malaria and discusses geographic areas suffering heavily from malaria in modern times, including sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia.

Examines the effects of malaria and what can be done by health organizations and doctors to treat and prevent the disease worldwide.

Explains the mechanisms of malaria transmission and replication from a molecular view, discusses symptoms of the disease as well as treatment and prevention options.

Describes the causes of malaria, what the disease is, how it can be prevented, and the ways in which to treat it.

This book describes malaria, explaining how people get the disease, the symptoms of the disease, and the treatments for the disease.

This book includes an up-to-date overview of malaria, an infectious disease caused by mosquitoes carrying any of four malaria parasites; opposing viewpoints on treatments and other debates relating to malaria; and a variety of personal perspectives on the disease.

Chronicles three seventeenth-century British explorers' attempts to locate the cinchna tree, the only known source of quinine, and transport it from Peru to England in the hopes of using it to develop a cure for malaria.