The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Sonia Shah
Penguin
309 pages; Rs 499
It is estimated that half of all human deaths since the Stone Age have been due to malaria. As this reviewer reads Sonia Shah’s The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Mankind for 500,000 Years, with an electric mosquito swatter in hand, it seems incredible that a disease man found a cure to 400 years ago, learnt to prevent in early 1900s and developed prophylactics for almost 50 years ago, continues to cut swathes through populations across the world today. Is the species Anopheles a super vector, and
