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a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that, while nonexistent in wealthy nations, strikes hundreds of millions of people a year in developing nations — killing over a million each yearmore 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
- Malaria is one of the areas of focus for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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 over a million each year
- A medic was handing out malaria pills.Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels
- fell ill with malaria and nothing the healer concocted saved him.Alice Walker -- The Color Purple
- Malaria is our enemy number one.Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- The second year a hard frost killed his young grove, and he fell ill with malaria.Willa Cather -- My Antonia
- There is always malaria for some people.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- "No human being inhabits this malarious extent" is how one journalist describes this region.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- I think it most probable—though of course it's only an opinion—that you'll all have the deuce to pay before you get that malaria out of your systems.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
- [1] Unhealthy regions, noted for the prevalence of malarial fevers in summer.Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
- "No," says Bill, "nothing chronic except malaria and accidents.O. Henry -- The Ransom of Red Chief
- Then about Negroes, mulattoes, mestizos, whites, the illiteracy rate — over 50 percent — and malaria.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Two of the little girls at the school had had malaria and died.Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
- My mother, who was having a minor breakdown over the lack of citronella candles at Home Depot-she was convinced someone would get malaria-let her in.Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland
- His wife would not be at her most charitable if he came bringing malaria home to the family.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- The air was sweltering, close, but I felt myself in the clutch of malarial trembling and chills.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- They had a guy with some kind of oxygen-tent thing nearby that looked like a malaria net.Paul Zindel -- The Pigman
- On his return trip he was stricken with malarial fever, resulting from exposure and bad water, and lay seriously ill in a cactus desert in Arizona.Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- It was as much as Kim could remember of his own treatment in a bout of autumn malaria—if you except the patter that he added to impress the lama.Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- The clinician asks: Is this malaria?Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- From the man's distorted body and twisted mind, in occult ways, like mists rising from malarial marshes, came emanations of the unhealth within.Jack London -- White Fang
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 over a million 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
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
malaria = a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes
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 over a million 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
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
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