The fever trail: the hunt for the cure for Malaria. (Cracking the mosquito code).

Publication: Spectator

Publication Date: 24-NOV-01

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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)

THE FEVER TRAIL: THE HUNT FOR THE CURE FOR MALARIA

by Mark Honigsbaum Macmillan, 18.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 338, ISBN 0333901851

This strange, dark forest of a book, the first pharmaceutical epic to reach my attention, can be read both as a travel extravaganza and as a learned work of social and natural history.

Thanks to the far-reaching effects of malaria, the narrative has a colossal historical and geographical span. The story covers four centuries, encompasses most of the globe and has as much to say about the machinations of man as about the processes of nature....

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