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17
. Stephen H. Gillespie and Richard D. Pearson,
Principles and Practice of Clinical Parasitology
(Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2001), 9.

 
18
. John Farley, “Parasites and the Germ Theory of Disease,”
Milbank Quarterly
67, suppl. 1 (1989): 50–68.

 
19
. Haynes,
Imperial Medicine
, 49–82.

 
20
. James Stevens Simmons,
Malaria in Panama
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1939), 8–9.

 
21
. Ibid., 18; David McCullough,
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(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977), 134.

 
22
. McCullough,
The Path Between the Seas
, 159, 174.

 
23
. Press dispatch from Panama, “Is M. de Lesseps a Canal Digger or a Grave Digger?”
Harper’s Weekly
, September 3, 1881.

 
24
. McCullough,
The Path Between the Seas
, 144.

 
25
. “North River Malaria.”

 
26
. See, e.g., R. Patterson, “Dr. William Gorgas and His War with the Mosquito,”
Canadian Medical Association Journal
141 (6), September 15, 1989, 596.

 
27
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The Path Between the Seas
, 221–23.

 
28
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British Medical Journal
(December 8, 1894).

 
29
. Haynes,
Imperial Medicine
, 90.

 
30
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(Amsterdam and Atlanta, Calif.: Rodopi B.V., 1998), 55, 125.

 
31
. Mark Harrison,
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(London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine), 1994.

 
32
. Ronald Ross,
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(London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1932), 118.

 
33
. Bynum and Overy, eds.,
The Beast in the Mosquito
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34
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Indian Medical Gazette
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35
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36
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37
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Lancet
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38
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versus
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International Microbiology
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(London: John Murray, 1928), 337.

 
39
. Bignami, “Hypotheses as to the Life-history of the Malarial Parasite.”

 
40
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, 85.

 
41
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42
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43
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44
. Ibid., 336.

 
45
. Ross,
Memoirs
, 339.

 
46
. Bynum and Overy, eds.,
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, 355.

 
47
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48
. Ibid., 341.

 
49
. Bynum and Overy, eds.,
The Beast in the Mosquito
, 357.

 
50
. Ross,
Memoirs
, 341.

 
51
. Bynum and Overy, eds.,
The Beast in the Mosquito
, 411.

 
52
. Ross,
Memoirs
, 355.

 
53
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The Beast in the Mosquito
.

 
54
. Ross,
Memoirs
, 455.

 
55
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, 396.

 
56
. Ibid., 289.

 
57
. Capanna, “Grassi
versus
Ross,” 69–74.

 
58
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, 466.

 
59
. Lewis W. Hackett,
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(London: Oxford University Press, 1937), 12.

 
60
. Ibid., 12.

 
61
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, 437.

 
62
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Pacific Medical Journal
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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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63
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, 390.

 
64
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Memoirs
, 365.

 
65
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Public Health in British India
, 159.

 
66
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Memoirs
, 430.

 
67
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, 449.

 
68
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The Journal of Hygiene
48, no. 2 ( June 1950): 146–57.

 
69
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The Conquest of Malaria
, 46.

 
70
. Hackett,
Malaria in Europe
, 16.

 
71
. Ross,
Memoirs
, 415.

 
72
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73
. Bynum and Overy, eds.,
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; W. F. Bynum, “‘Reasons for Contentment’: Malaria in India, 1900–1920,”
Parassitologia
40 (1998): 19–27.

 
74
. Snowden,
The Conquest of Malaria
, 158.

 
75
. Sir Malcolm Watson,
African Highway: The Battle for Health in Central Africa
(London: John Murray Publishers, 1953), 236.

 
76
. James Whorton,
Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and Public Health in Pre-DDT America
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1974), 6–41.

 
77
. L. O. Howard,
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(New York: Arno Press, 1980).

 
78
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(New York: Hyperion, 2001), 118; Gordon Harrison,
Mosquitoes, Malaria and Man
, 168.

 
79
. John Farley,
To Cast Out Disease: A History of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913–1951)
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 111.

 
80
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81
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Isis
80, no. 301 (March 1989): 40–59.

 
82
. Gordon Harrison,
Mosquitoes, Malaria and Man
, 185.

 
83
. Hackett,
Malaria in Europe
, 16.

 
84
. Howard,
Fighting the Insects
, 120.

 
85
. Hackett,
Malaria in Europe
, 40–41.

 
86
. Paul F. Russell, “Identification of the Larvae of the Three Common
Anopheline
Mosquitoes of the Southern United States,”
American Journal of Epidemiology
5 (March 1925): 149–74.

 
87
. Hackett,
Malaria in Europe
, 273.

 
88
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89
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90
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Lancet
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91
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(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 145–46.

 
92
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at Home and Abroad,”
American Journal of Public Health
66, no. 9 (1976): 897–903.

 
93
. William E. Collins and John W. Barnwell, “A Hopeful Beginning for Malaria Vaccines,”
New England Journal of Medicine
359 (December 11, 2008): 2599–601; Judith E. Epstein, “What Will a Partly Protective Malaria Vaccine Mean to Mothers in Africa?”
Lancet
370, no. 9598 (November 3, 2007): 1523–24.

 
94
. Ben C. L. van Schaijk et al., “Gene Disruption of
Plasmodium falciparum p52
Results in Attenuation of Malaria Liver Stage Development in Cultured Primary Human Hepatocytes,”
PLoS One
3, no. 10 (October 28, 2008); Jason Fagone, “The Scientist Ending Malaria with His Army of Mosquitoes,”
Esquire
, December 8, 2008.

 
95
. Louis Miller, quoted in Susan Okie, “Betting on a Malaria Vaccine,”
New England Journal of Medicine
353 (November 3, 2005): 1877–81.

 
96
. Mary Moran et al.,
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(Sydney, Australia: George Institute for International Health, 2007).

 
97
. Interview with Dyann Wirth, March 10, 2008.

 
98
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Anopheles gambiae
Genome: Completing the Malaria Triad,”
Science
298, no. 5591 (October 4, 2002): 13; “Gateses Give Record $5 Billion Gift to Foundation,”
New York Times
, June 3, 1999.

 
99
. Visit to Dyann Wirth lab, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Mass., March 10, 2008.

8. THE DISAPPEARED: HOW MALARIA VANISHED FROM THE WEST
 

   
1
. M. J. Dobson, “‘Marsh Fever’: The Geography of Malaria in England,”
Journal of Historical Geography
, 6, no. 4 (1980): 357–89.

   
2
. Paul Reiter, “From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age,”
Emerging Infectious Diseases
6, no. 1 ( January–February 2000): 1–11.

   
3
. Dobson, “ ‘Marsh Fever,’ ” 357–89.

   
4
. Ibid., 357–89.

   
5
. Lewis W. Hackett,
Malaria in Europe: An Ecological Study
(London: Oxford University Press, 1937), 174.

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