All 3 Uses of
malaria
in
A Farewell to Arms
- There were three other patients in the hospital now, a thin boy in the Red Cross from Georgia with malaria, a nice boy, also thin, from New York, with malaria and jaundice, and a fine boy who had tried to unscrew the fusecap from a combination shrapnel and high explosive shell for a souvenir.†
Book 2malaria = a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that strikes millions of people in developing nations each year
- There were three other patients in the hospital now, a thin boy in the Red Cross from Georgia with malaria, a nice boy, also thin, from New York, with malaria and jaundice, and a fine boy who had tried to unscrew the fusecap from a combination shrapnel and high explosive shell for a souvenir.†
Book 2
- She had quite a little work with the malaria people, the boy who had unscrewed the nosecap was a friend of ours and never rang at night, unless it was necessary but between the times of working we were together.†
Book 2 *
Definition:
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
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