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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 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

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

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

fell ill with malaria and nothing the healer concocted saved him.
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple

malaria = a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes

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

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