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The Fever Trail Mark Honigsbaum

The Fever Trail By Mark Honigsbaum

The Fever Trail by Mark Honigsbaum


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The Fever Trail: Malaria, the Mosquito and the Quest by Mark Honigsbaum

In the last 15 years Malaria has killed 60 times more people than AIDSThere still is no vaccine.The Fever Trail is a fascinating boat trip through the history of Malaria and those that have sought to cure it. It is a story of courage; of political machinations and personal bravery, of the New World against the Old. From the jungles of Peru to the high-tech labs in the USA, Mark Honigsbaum reveals the characters and events that, up until now, have been little more than footnotes in history.The Fever Trail starts with the hunt for the Cinchono tree, the tree that yielded the cure for Malaria, quinine. Markham, Ledger and Spruce, the trio of explorers given the task of transporting the tree to the colonies, gave most of their lives so that the world could be free of intermittent fevers.They never though that the disease would mutate.The modern pioneers no longer search out forests, or spend months on dangerous rivers. Instead they battle on in laboratories and facilities desperate to find what has eluded mankind for centuries. A cure.

About Mark Honigsbaum

Mark Honigsbaum is a journalist, writer and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Formerly Chief Reporter of the Observer, he has contributed articles for most British national newspapers and has made several documentaries for television. When he isn't travelling in South America he lives in London with his wife and two children

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GOR002011518
9780333901854
0333901851
The Fever Trail: Malaria, the Mosquito and the Quest by Mark Honigsbaum
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Pan Macmillan
2001-11-09
352
N/A
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