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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
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
- Red eyes—he began to wonder if he had malaria.p. 29.8
- He started taking malaria pills, but they didn't do any good, so he asked one of the nurses to give him an injection of an antimalarial drug.p. 29.9
- He started taking malaria pills, but they didn't do any good, so he asked one of the nurses to give him an injection of an antimalarial drug.p. 29.9
- Next door, people stood in line at the clinic and shivered with malaria while they waited for a nun to give them an injection of medicine that might make them feel better.p. 101.8
- Perhaps she had a touch of malaria, she hoped.p. 111.5
- Now she is sitting in the casualty ward at Mama Yemo among the cases of malaria, among the large-bellied children in rags, and no one is paying any attention to her because all she has is a headache and red eyes.p. 111.9
- A doctor gives her a shot for malaria and tells her that she should be in quarantine for her illness.p. 112.1
- But when she arrives at University Hospital, the doctors can't seem to find anything wrong with her, except for possibly some signs of malaria.p. 112.4
- His parents took him to the hospital, where the doctors examined him and concluded that he had come down with malaria.p. 134.5
- His mother did not believe it was malaria.p. 134.5
- She had probably been suffering from malaria.p. 263.6
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