malaria

[Nadja Adolf]

I keep thinking the mosquito was something that sounded like
a "vivax" mosquito.

We could solve this question in a hurry with a call to the
Oregon State Health Department.

Back when I worked for them as a lowly gonorrhea clerk the
older epidemiologists talked quite a bit about the "last malaria
outbreak" in the Willamette Valley. It was apparently a matter of
some pride that it was quickly contained.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Cleven [SMTP:ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM]
> Sent:	Thursday, February 04, 1999 7:22 PM
> To:	CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
> Subject:	Re: malaria
>
> 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!