malaria

[Linda Fink]

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

Thanks, Nadja, for this website! I found it interesting but I'm not ready to
swallow that the disease they are calling "malaria" in the 1800s was
malaria. Lots of diseases cause "fever and ague".

They say that the life cycle of the Anopheles mosquito cannot be completed
in below 60 degree F. (16 degree C.) temperatures. Perhaps there are parts
of the NW that do not dip below that at night in the summer, but the NW
coast is not one of them, as far as I know. Certainly the little buggers
could have survived in the SE U.S. (There are 3 subfamilies of mosquitoes,
of which the vast majority in North America belong to Culicinae. Culicinae
don't carry malaria. Only one genus of the subfamily Anophelinae occurs in
N. America.)

Malaria can only be identified through a blood test when the parasite is in
its active phase. That blood test was not available in the 1800s.

Like most of CDCs pronouncements, I take this one with a grain of salt.

Other subject: Has a site definitely been chosen for the Chinook workshop?
Date?

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