malaria

[Mike Cleven]

At 05:10 PM 2/4/99 -0500, Linda Fink wrote:
>Finally something I know about -- although I'm not sure what it has to do
>with CJ. Malaria is carried by the anopheles mosquito, which does not
>survive in areas of hard frost. I contracted both vivax and falciporum
>malaria in Laos, so I had occasion to learn about the disease. I don't think
>the NW tribes could have been wiped out by malaria. There are plenty of
>other candidates.

All I know is that malaria was relatively common in the Lower Mainland of
British Columbia into the early 20th Century; someone else around here
spoke of a malaria epidemic in the 1830s.  Not sure what the variety of
mosquito iss around here, but I do know there used to be a lot of them!