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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
The Fever How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500000 Years Author:Sonia Shah In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have opened their pocketbooks in hopes of eradicating the scourge. How does a parasitic disease that we?ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect three hundred million pe... more »ople every year, killing nearly one million of them? In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer this question, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity.« less
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