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A parasitic disease spread by mosquitoes,
Symptoms
Shaking chills, then fever to 104 degrees, severe
headache.
After several hours the sufferer begins sweating
profusely; then the headache and fever disappear. Attacks recur
every 48 hours.
Weakness, some anemia.
Chronic in southern and low lying areas of Europe, including
southern and eastern England. The name ?malaria? comes from the
Italian for ?bad air,? which was believed to cause the disease
before the agency of mosquitoes was understood.
The only type of
malaria that occurs in England is rarely fatal.
Diseases
Dysentery
Ergotism Gonorrhea
Leprosy Malaria
Plague Smallpox
Typhoid Black
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