Malaria’s effects have long been at the center of colonial expansion and war. The disease became a focus of research in the late nineteenth century. France and Great Britain had expanded their colonies into areas of the world where malaria was the most severe and debilitating of the parasitic tropical diseases—a factor that limited the colonial governments’ exploitation of natural resources

War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century / Tognotti, Eugenia. - In: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. - ISSN 1080-6059. - 15:7(2009). [10.3201/eid1507.090451]

War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century

TOGNOTTI, Eugenia
2009-01-01

Abstract

Malaria’s effects have long been at the center of colonial expansion and war. The disease became a focus of research in the late nineteenth century. France and Great Britain had expanded their colonies into areas of the world where malaria was the most severe and debilitating of the parasitic tropical diseases—a factor that limited the colonial governments’ exploitation of natural resources
2009
War and Disease: Biomedical Research on Malaria in the Twentieth Century / Tognotti, Eugenia. - In: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. - ISSN 1080-6059. - 15:7(2009). [10.3201/eid1507.090451]
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