All 5 Uses of
malaria
in
The Color Purple
- fell ill with malaria and nothing the healer concocted saved him.
*malaria = a tropical disease spread by mosquitoes
- We try to keep them busy around the compound and because there is so much sickness from malaria this season there is plenty for them to do.†
- In plowing under the Olinka's yam crop and substituting canned and powdered goods, the planters destroyed what makes them resistant to malaria.†
- Of course they did not know this, they only wanted to take the land for rubber, but the Olinka have been eating yams to prevent malaria and to control chronic blood disease for thousands and thousands of years.†
- But Samuel feels we will probably be all right, having had bouts with malaria during the first years we were here.†
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