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5) Malaria
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents an overview of the disease malaria, covering its history, scope, diagnosis, treatment, research, and prevention; also includes a glossary, a bibliography, and a list of related organizations.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
"In the summer of 1623, ten cardinals and hundreds of their attendants died in Rome while electing a new pope. The Roman marsh fever that felled them was the scourge of the Mediterranean, northern Europe and even America. Malaria, now known as a disease of the tropics, badly weakened the Roman Empire. It killed thousands of British troops fighting Napoleon in 1809 and many soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War. It turned back travelers...
7) Vector
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"The Amazon rain forest spawns a new terror that will bring the world to its knees in this new Joe Rush bio-thriller. Joe Rush is at an Amazon gold rush to study new forms of malaria when his best friend and partner, Eddie Nakamura, disappears. When learning that many of the sick miners have also vanished, Rush begins a search for Eddie that takes him into the heart of darkness. Where he must battle for his life, and where he discovers a secret that...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in 1969, she went to work finding a treatment. Trained as a medical researcher in college and healed by traditional medicine techniques when she was young, Tu Youyou started experimenting with natural Chinese remedies. The treatment she discovered through years of research and experimentation is still used all over...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Explores the relationship between mosquitoes and disease, discussing the outbreak of West Nile virus in New York in 1999, and other instances of mosquito-related epidemics in history; and looks at some of the other disease spread by mosquitoes, with information about their diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Author
Series
Kinky Friedman mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
It's a case of malaria versus murder when private dick extraordinaire Kinky Friedman comes down with a tropical disease, in the jungle known as New York City, and is confined to his loft on Vandam Street in lower Manhattan, a prisoner in his own home with only his cat and black puppet head as company.
Author
Series
Kinky Friedman mysteries volume 16
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Stricken with malaria in his Vandam Street home, an unwitting Kinky Friedman is attended to by the faithful Village Irregulars, but when he witnesses a crime from his window, questions about his feverish state of mind are raised.
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