Bad air, amulets and mosquitoes: 2,000 years of changing perspectives on malaria

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RT @jljcolorado: 18/ Thus it became a policy of the Roman Empire to drain swamps, removing breeding grounds for mosquitos, reducing malari…

RT @jljcolorado: 17/ Some origin theories were more specific. E.g. Roman scholar Varro (116–27 BCE) wrote that swamps were a particular bre…

RT @jljcolorado: 17/ For example, the etymological root of the term "malaria" (a disease that we now know is transmitted by mosquitos) is “…

RT @jljcolorado: 17/ For example, the etymological root of the term "malaria" (a disease that we now know is transmitted by mosquitos) is “…

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