Both Uses of
malaria
in
Arrowsmith
- In fact, noted Inchcape Jones, nothing did exist in St. Hubert except malaria, dengue, and a general beastly dullness, and if Red Legs like Kellett longed to die of plague and rat-bite fever, why should decent people object?†
Chpt 31
- He made the fruit to grow so well that man need not workâand then He laughed, and stuck in volcanoes and snakes and damp heat and early senility and the plague and malaria.†
Chpt 34 *
Definition:
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(malaria) a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that, while nonexistent in wealthy nations, strikes hundreds of millions of people a year in developing nations -- killing hundreds of thousands each year
more technically: an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever