CDC Malaria information - maps

[Nadja Adolf]

Malaria information from the CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol2no1/zuckerei.htm

This website contains maps showing areas where malaria was believed
endemic in 1882 and 1912.
The Willamette Valley is prominent among them.

They also list a number of Anopholes mosquitoes, and note that there are
mosquitoes capable
of transmitting malaria in all the "Lower 48."

They believe malaria was brought from Europe and Africa.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Gene Lewis [SMTP:coyotez at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU]
> Sent:	Friday, February 05, 1999 1:50 PM
> To:	CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
> Subject:	Re: malaria
>
> 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