Malaria Letters: The Ross-Laveran Correspondence 1896-1908
Publishing Details
Malaria Letters: The Ross-Laveran Correspondence 1896-1908
By (Author) Edwin R Nye
Otago University Press
Otago University Press
1st January 2010
New Zealand
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
614.53209
Physical Properties
62
Width 152mm, Height 216mm, Spine 10mm
200g
Description
Every thirty seconds a child dies from malaria somewhere in the world. As new cases, the disease affects more than one hundred million people each year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. But with global warming the distribution of mosquito vectors is changing and whole populations are at increasing risk. Alphonse Laveran first demonstrated the parasitic nature of malaria in 1880. Within twenty years, Ronald Ross had worked out the role of mosquitoes in transmission of the disease. This first translation of the two scientists' correspondence asks whether the world has let them down, failing to translate their findings into 'straightforward action' ...
Author Bio
Edwin R. Nye was born in Belgium and received his early education in France. He taught at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before joining the staff of the medical school at the University of Otago. He holds an ONZM for services to medicine and the community. He is the co-author with Mary Gibson of Ronald Ross: Malariologist and Polymath: A Biography (1997).
