malaria

[David Gene Lewis]

Is it possible that through cyclical climactic changes that there have
been times in the past in the Willamette Valley  which have been ideal for
malarial mosquitos to
flourish?

On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Nadja Adolf wrote:

> 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!
>


"laska-lulu yaka kanamaqst" (we carry it together)

 "I am alive." Scott Momaday

"We must continue to struggle until we defeat those who have crowned
themselves, those who have helped to take the land from others, those who
make much money with the labor of people like us, those who mock us in
their estates."
>From the:Fourth Declaration of the Lancandon Jungle, 1/1/96.

"haias-masi" (many thanks)

David Lewis
coyotez at oregon.uoregon.edu