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Saturday, December 5th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Malaria in the USA, 1870
By iayork
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Ian,
you have a knack for finding interesting things on the interweb. It looks like the Lansing captial area had some malaria problems, probably due to the swamps (http://www.lansingmi.gov/parks/forestry/history.jsp).
Here are the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge (starting from 1665)
http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/
Not just “some malaria” — Michigan was notorious for malaria in the 1800s.
–Bulletin of the Medical and Surgical Sanitorium, Battle Creek, Michigan (1892)
how about the Guelph / Greater Toronto area? If “[g]oing to Michigan was considered synonymous with going to have a fit of the ague”…
On a different note, do you have any recommendations for papers dealing with the X chromosome and immune function?
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Wow, that is incredible. Makes you wonder when something like this can happen again, time to get protective masks in the event of some outbreak (at least me personally, just ordered some)
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