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by Sonia Shah


  Carolinas, colonial; Scottish settlers in

  Carroll, Dennis

  Carson, Rachel

  Carter, Richard

  Caventou, Joseph

  Celsus

  Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

  Central African Republic

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

  cerebral malaria

  Chad

  Chagres fever

  Chamberlain, Joseph

  Chan, Margaret

  Chaouch, Adel

  Charles II, King of England

  Chemical Warfare Service, U.S.

  Chernin, Peter

  Chewa people

  Childs, St. Julien Ravenel

  Chile

  China; ancient; Cultural Revolution in; Military Academy of Medical Sciences; Project 523 in; in World War II

  chloroquine; parasites resistant to

  cholera

  Christianity

  Christophers, Samuel Rickard

  Church of Scotland

  cinchona bark

  Civil War

  Clarkson, M. L.

  Clinton, Bill

  Clinton Foundation

  Coartem

  Coatney, Robert G.

  Cobbold, Thomas Spencer

  Coburn, Tom

  coffee

  cold war

  Colin, Léon

  Colombia

  Columbia University

  Columella, Lucius

  Comoros Islands

  Congress, U.S.

  Connecticut

  Conniff, Michael

  Consumer Reports

  Continental Congress

  Crichton, Michael

  Cromwell, Oliver

  crop rotation

  Cuba

  Culex mosquitoes

  Curtin, Philip

  Curtis, Chris

  Curtis, Richard

  Cushite people

  Dafra Pharmaceuticals

  Dante Alighieri

  DDT; development of; in eradication campaigns; free-market conservative advocacy of; mosquitoes resistant to; toxicity and environmental impact of

  Defoe, Daniel

  dengue fever

  dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, see DDT

  diptheria

  DNA

  Drake, Francis

  Drummond, Henry

  Duffy antigens

  Durant-Reynals, M. L.

  dysentery

  Earl, Ralph

  Earle, Carville

  East African, The

  East India Company

  Ecuador

  Egypt; ancient

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  El Niño

  El Salvador

  encephalitis, Japanese

  England, see Britain

  Equatorial Guinea

  Essig, E. O.

  Etang, Josiane

  Ethiopia

  ExxonMobil

  Facebook

  Fairley, Neil Hamilton

  falciparum malaria; artemisinin combination medications for; in childhood; chloroquine-resistant; in Roman Empire; sickle-cell gene and; prophylaxis of; slave trade and spread of; tolerance to; vaccine research for

  Falleroni, Domenico

  Family Health International

  Fansidar

  Far Easter n Economic Review

  Farley, John

  farming, see agriculture

  Fascists

  Febris, demon goddess of malaria

  filariasis

  Fortune magazine

  France; colonies of; settlers in American colonies from; in World War I

  Fungladda, Wijitr

  Galen

  Gambia

  Gandhi, Mohandas

  Garibaldi, Giuseppe

  Garnham, P.C.C.

  Gates, Bill

  Gates, Melinda

  Gauguin, Paul

  Ge Hong

  Geigy Corporation

  Geisel, Theodor Seuss

  Genzyme

  Germany; Mad Cow Disease in; quinine in; in World War I; in World War II

  Ghana; University of

  Gladwell, Malcolm

  GlaxoSmithKline

  Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

  Godfrey of Viterbo

  Goebbels, Joseph

  Gorgas, William Crawford

  Gorgas Memorial Institute

  Grassi, Giovanni Battista

  Greece; ancient

  Greenwood, Brian

  G6PD

  Guadalcanal

  Guangzhou University

  Guardian, The

  Guatemala

  Guyana

  Hackett, Lewis

  Hand, Landrift

  Harper’s magazine

  Harper’s Weekly

  Harrison, Gordon

  Harrison, Mark

  Harugoli, Kishor

  Harvard University; Malaria Initiative (HMI)

  Hasted, Edward

  Havana

  Hayman, Martin

  Haynes, Douglas M.

  Hecate

  Hedge Funds vs. Malaria

  Heggenhougen, H. Kristian

  Helitzer, Deborah

  hemoglobin E

  Herodotus

  Heston, Charlton

  Hippocrates

  Hiroshima, atomic bombing of

  Hitler, Adolf

  HIV

  Ho Chi Minh Trail

  Hoffman-La Roche

  Holland, see Netherlands

  Homer

  Hong Kong

  House of Representatives, U.S.

  Howard, L. O.

  Hudson Institute

  Human Genome Project

  Humphrey, Hubert

  Humphreys, Margaret

  hydropower industry

  Ice Age

  I.G. Farben

  Illinois

  Illinois Central Railroad

  Illovo Sugar

  Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service

  Independent, The

  India; ancient; bed nets in; British Raj in; economic growth and building boom in; El Niño and; population density in; during World War I; during World War II

  Indian Medical Gazette

  Indian Medical Service (IMS)

  Indonesia; in World War II

  influenza; avian; pandemic of 1918

  Innocent VIII, Pope

  insecticides; bed nets treated with; mosquitoes resistant to; see also DDT

  intermittent preventive therapy for infants (IPTI)

  International Development Advisory Board (IDAB)

  International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  Interpol

  Iran

  Ireland, settlers from

  Irian Jaya

  Islam, radical

  Italy; Fascist; quinine distribution in; research in; in World War I; in World War II; see also Rome

  Jackson, Harvey H.

  Jain religion

  Jamaica

  James, Sydney Price

  Jamestown, colonial

  Japan; population density in; in World War II

  Japanese encephalitis

  Java

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jesuits

  Jewish refugees

  Johns Hopkins University

  Justice Department, U.S.

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kenya

  Khoisan people

  Klebs, Edwin

  Koch, Robert

  Kochi, Arata

  Kuna people

  Kutcher, Ashton

  Laifer, Lance

  Lancet, The

  La Niña

  Laveran, Alphonse

  League of Nations-62

  Lebanon

  Ledger, Charles

  Ledgeriana trees Leinengen versus the Ants (radio play)

  Lepes, Tibor

  LePrince, Joseph

  leprosy

  Lesseps, Ferdinand de

  Lewis, Timothy

  Liberia


  Li Guoqiao

  Lines, Jo

  Litsios, Socrates

  Little Ice Age

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

  Livingstone, David

  Livingstone, Mary

  London Daily Mail

  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  London Society of Arts

  Long, Richard

  Louisiana; during Civil War

  Lydus, John

  Lyle, Clay

  MacArthur, General Douglas

  Macaulay, Lord Thomas Babington

  Macedonia

  Madagascar

  Mad Cow Disease

  Malaria No More

  Malawi; economic impact of malaria in; traditional village culture in

  Malaysia

  Mamani, Manuel Incra

  Mande languages

  Man’s Mastery of Malaria (Russell)

  Manson, Patrick

  Mao Zedong

  Marathon Oil

  Marshall Plan

  Martini, Erich

  Martinique

  Maryland, colonial

  Massachusetts

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  McCutchan, Tom

  McElwee, Pamela

  measles

  Médecins Sans Frontières

  Medical Times and Gazette, The

  Medicines for Malaria Venture

  Mendis, Kamini

  Metropolitan Museum (New York)

  miasmatic theory

  Michigan

  Michigan, University of

  Michigan State University

  Middle Ages

  milldams

  Mills, Anne

  Mindanao

  mining

  Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (Livingstone)

  Mohéli Island

  Morocco

  Mosquirix

  Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man (Harrison)

  Motta, Jorge

  Mozambique

  Msechu, June

  Multilateral Initiative on Malaria

  mululuza

  Muppets, the

  Mussolini, Benito

  Myanmar

  Nájera, José

  Namibia

  Naples

  National Academies, Institute for Medicine of

  National Cancer Institute

  National Malaria Society

  Native Americans

  Nature (journal)

  Navy, U.S.

  Ndoye, Tidiane

  Netherlands; Kina Bureau; colonies of

  New England; colonial

  New Guinea

  New Jersey

  Newman, Peter

  New Mexico, University of

  News Corporation

  Newsweek

  New Yorker, The

  New York Times, The

  Nicaragua

  Nigeria; Ministry of Health

  Nightingale, Florence

  Nobel Prize

  non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

  Nothing but Nets

  Nott, Josiah Clark

  Novartis

  Nubian people

  nuclear weapons

  oil companies

  On the Beach (film)

  Osler, William

  Owen, H. Collinson

  Oxford University

  Packard, Randall

  Palestine

  Panama; canal building projects in; Health Department of; Scottish settlers in; Spanish colonization of

  Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

  Pan American Sanitary Bureau

  Pan American Sanitary Conference (1954)

  Papua New Guinea

  parasitism

  Paris Green

  Paterson, William

  Peace Corps

  Pécoul, Bernard

  Pelletier, Pierre

  People in Red

  Perkins, John

  Peru

  pesticides, see DDT; insecticides

  petroleum industry

  Philippines

  Pilgrims

  plague

  Plasmodium; in ancient world; artemisinin and; DDT and; evolution of; genetic diversity of; identification of mosquito as carrier of; microscopic discovery of; morphology and physiology of; mosquito behavior and; plants alkaloids and (see also cinchona bark); quinine and; research on vaccine against; slave trade and species: P. falciparum (see also falciparum malaria); P. knowlesi; P. malariae; P. ovale; P. vivax

  Plymouth colony

  pneumonia

  pneumonic plague

  Politico.com

  Poliziano, Angelo

  polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

  Popular Mechanics

  populism, American

  Portugal: colonies of; missionaries from

  Powell, Nathaniel

  Prebble, John

  Protestants

  Puritans

  Pygmy people

  pyrethrum

  Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Blantyre, Malawi)

  quinacrine

  quinine; artemisinin compared with; for cerebral malaria; effect on Plasmodium of; obstacles to widespread use of; prophylactic use of; side effects of; synthetic, see chloroquine; quinacrine; during World War II

  Raleigh, Walter

  Reed, Major Walter

  Republican Party

  Revolutionary War, see American Revolution

  rheumatic fever

  Rhodesia

  Riamet

  Ritchie, Thomas

  Rocco, Fiammetta

  Rochester City Newspaper

  Rockefeller, John D.

  Rockefeller Foundation

  Rohwer, Sievert

  Roll Back Malaria (RBM)

  Roman Catholic Church

  Rome; ancient

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Rosenberg, Tina

  Ross, Ronald

  Roubaud, Emile

  Royal Air Force

  Royal Dutch Shell

  Royal Society

  Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

  Ruggles, Joseph

  Ruskin, John

  Russell, Paul

  Russia; in World War I

  Sabot, Oliver

  Sacculina carcini

  Sachs, Jeffrey

  Sammonicus, Serenus

  Sanaria

  Sanofi-Aventis

  Santo Spirito hospital (Rome)

  Sarawak

  Sardinia

  Sarrail, General Maurice

  SARS

  Saudi Arabia

  Science magazine

  Scotland; medical education in; settlers in colonial America from

  Senegal; Research Institute

  September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks

  Seuss, Dr.

  Seydel, Karl

  Shortt, H. E.

  Sicily

  Silent Spring (Carson)

  Simmons, James Stevens

  Singapore

  Sixtus V, Pope

  slaves: African, see African slaves; in ancient Rome; Native American

  sleeping sickness

  smallpox; eradication campaign against; vaccines against

  Smith, John B.

  Snowden, Frank

  Solomon Islands

  Soper, Fred

  Soren, David

  South, University of the

  South Africa

  Soviet Union; nuclear weapons testing in

  Spain; American colonies of

  Spearpoint, C. F.

  Spice Islands

  Spielman, Andrew

  Sri Lanka

  State Department, U.S. (see also International Development Advisory Board)

  Steketee, Rick

  Stendhal

  Sternberg, George Miller

  Stevens, General J.E.S.

  Straits Times

  Sudan

  Suez Canal

  sulphur insecticides

 
; Sumatra

  Sumeria

  Suriname

  Swellengrebel, N. H.

  Switzerland; Tropical Institute of

  Sydenham, Thomas

  Taft, William Howard

  Taiwan

  Tajikistan

  Talbor’s Wonderful Secret

  Tanzania

  Taylor, Norman

  Taylor, Terrie

  Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

  terrorism

  tetanus

  Texas

  Thailand

  Them! (film)

  Time magazine

  Tommasi-Crudeli, Corrado

  Torres Strait Islands

  Townshend, Charles

  tuberculosis

  Turkey

  Twitter

  typhoid

  typhus

  Uganda

  United Nations; Children’s Fund (UNICEF); Food and Agriculture Organization; Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)

  United States; antitrust suit against Kina Bureau by; DDT in; endangered species in; entomological research in; eradication campaign funded by; history of malaria in; nuclear weapons testing in; and Panama Canal; public health service of; racism in; support for international antimalarial projects from; in Vietnam War; in World War II; see also specific government agencies and departments; specific states

  U2

  vaccines

  Vargas, Gertülio

  Varro, Marcus Terentius

  Vatican

  Vedic sagas

  Venezuela

  Veto the ’Squito

  Viele, General Egbert L.

  Vietnam; war in

  Vileisis, Ann

  Virginia colonial

  Visigoths

  Vogt, William

  Wafer, Lionel

  Wall Street Journal, The

  Walpole, Horace

  Washington, George

  Washington Monument

  Washington Post, The

  Watson, Malcolm

  Webb, James

  Welch, S. W.

  West Nile virus

  West Point, U.S. Military Academy at

  Whorton, James

  Wirth, Dyann

  Wisconsin

  World Bank

  World Health Assembly

  World Health Organization (WHO); and AIDS crisis; artemisinin policies of; on cerebral malaria; and chloroquine resistance; environmental impacts of economic development cited by; eradication campaigns of; establishment of; estimates of worldwide malaria deaths by; on intermittent preventive therapy for infants; Roll Back Malaria and; and vaccine research

  World Malaria Day

  World Swim Against Malaria

  World War I

  World War II

  yellow fever; vaccine against

  Zaire

  Zambia

  Zanzibar

  Zgambo, Joseph

  Zhou Yiqing

  Zimbabwe

  Zimmer, Carl

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and the critically acclaimed author of The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients and Crude: The Story of Oil. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New Scientist, The Nation, and elsewhere.

 

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