Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Malaria What Happened To Malaria In The American Colonies?

What happened to malaria in the American colonies? - malaria

I tell my students that the first settlers in the Chesapeake Bay suffered from malaria. She asked me why we do not have malaria. Ideas?

1 comment:

Phoenix said...

Quinine is a cinchona bark from South America, millions of people protected against malaria in the colonial period, so that the exploration and colonization of the habitable zone, but otherwise this deadly disease. When administered immediately, quinine has the ability, the symptoms of malaria in a few days to stop (Garrett, 1994). Qunine significantly affect the population of the planet, for better or for worse, significantly the ability of malaria to control the population decreased, especially in cities where large numbers of people who are constantly in close contact with others. Before quinine in India was introduced in the 1850s, malaria killed 1.3% of the population each year. Quinine, the people in India could grow to 700 million, while it would be without the people of India about 7 times less (Hobhouse, 1986). Indigenous peoples in West Africa have shown a high incidence of sickle cell anemia, negative symptoms, but the biggest benefit of all stakeholders representation largely immune to malaria. For many centuries, the West African's black PREfferen slaves, and who can work in areas where other persons, the disease,

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