by Sonia Shah
Carolinas, colonial; Scottish settlers in
Carroll, Dennis
Carson, Rachel
Carter, Richard
Caventou, Joseph
Celsus
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Central African Republic
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
cerebral malaria
Chad
Chagres fever
Chamberlain, Joseph
Chan, Margaret
Chaouch, Adel
Charles II, King of England
Chemical Warfare Service, U.S.
Chernin, Peter
Chewa people
Childs, St. Julien Ravenel
Chile
China; ancient; Cultural Revolution in; Military Academy of Medical Sciences; Project 523 in; in World War II
chloroquine; parasites resistant to
cholera
Christianity
Christophers, Samuel Rickard
Church of Scotland
cinchona bark
Civil War
Clarkson, M. L.
Clinton, Bill
Clinton Foundation
Coartem
Coatney, Robert G.
Cobbold, Thomas Spencer
Coburn, Tom
coffee
cold war
Colin, Léon
Colombia
Columbia University
Columella, Lucius
Comoros Islands
Congress, U.S.
Connecticut
Conniff, Michael
Consumer Reports
Continental Congress
Crichton, Michael
Cromwell, Oliver
crop rotation
Cuba
Culex mosquitoes
Curtin, Philip
Curtis, Chris
Curtis, Richard
Cushite people
Dafra Pharmaceuticals
Dante Alighieri
DDT; development of; in eradication campaigns; free-market conservative advocacy of; mosquitoes resistant to; toxicity and environmental impact of
Defoe, Daniel
dengue fever
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, see DDT
diptheria
DNA
Drake, Francis
Drummond, Henry
Duffy antigens
Durant-Reynals, M. L.
dysentery
Earl, Ralph
Earle, Carville
East African, The
East India Company
Ecuador
Egypt; ancient
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
El Niño
El Salvador
encephalitis, Japanese
England, see Britain
Equatorial Guinea
Essig, E. O.
Etang, Josiane
Ethiopia
ExxonMobil
Facebook
Fairley, Neil Hamilton
falciparum malaria; artemisinin combination medications for; in childhood; chloroquine-resistant; in Roman Empire; sickle-cell gene and; prophylaxis of; slave trade and spread of; tolerance to; vaccine research for
Falleroni, Domenico
Family Health International
Fansidar
Far Easter n Economic Review
Farley, John
farming, see agriculture
Fascists
Febris, demon goddess of malaria
filariasis
Fortune magazine
France; colonies of; settlers in American colonies from; in World War I
Fungladda, Wijitr
Galen
Gambia
Gandhi, Mohandas
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Garnham, P.C.C.
Gates, Bill
Gates, Melinda
Gauguin, Paul
Ge Hong
Geigy Corporation
Geisel, Theodor Seuss
Genzyme
Germany; Mad Cow Disease in; quinine in; in World War I; in World War II
Ghana; University of
Gladwell, Malcolm
GlaxoSmithKline
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Godfrey of Viterbo
Goebbels, Joseph
Gorgas, William Crawford
Gorgas Memorial Institute
Grassi, Giovanni Battista
Greece; ancient
Greenwood, Brian
G6PD
Guadalcanal
Guangzhou University
Guardian, The
Guatemala
Guyana
Hackett, Lewis
Hand, Landrift
Harper’s magazine
Harper’s Weekly
Harrison, Gordon
Harrison, Mark
Harugoli, Kishor
Harvard University; Malaria Initiative (HMI)
Hasted, Edward
Havana
Hayman, Martin
Haynes, Douglas M.
Hecate
Hedge Funds vs. Malaria
Heggenhougen, H. Kristian
Helitzer, Deborah
hemoglobin E
Herodotus
Heston, Charlton
Hippocrates
Hiroshima, atomic bombing of
Hitler, Adolf
HIV
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Hoffman-La Roche
Holland, see Netherlands
Homer
Hong Kong
House of Representatives, U.S.
Howard, L. O.
Hudson Institute
Human Genome Project
Humphrey, Hubert
Humphreys, Margaret
hydropower industry
Ice Age
I.G. Farben
Illinois
Illinois Central Railroad
Illovo Sugar
Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service
Independent, The
India; ancient; bed nets in; British Raj in; economic growth and building boom in; El Niño and; population density in; during World War I; during World War II
Indian Medical Gazette
Indian Medical Service (IMS)
Indonesia; in World War II
influenza; avian; pandemic of 1918
Innocent VIII, Pope
insecticides; bed nets treated with; mosquitoes resistant to; see also DDT
intermittent preventive therapy for infants (IPTI)
International Development Advisory Board (IDAB)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Interpol
Iran
Ireland, settlers from
Irian Jaya
Islam, radical
Italy; Fascist; quinine distribution in; research in; in World War I; in World War II; see also Rome
Jackson, Harvey H.
Jain religion
Jamaica
James, Sydney Price
Jamestown, colonial
Japan; population density in; in World War II
Japanese encephalitis
Java
Jefferson, Thomas
Jesuits
Jewish refugees
Johns Hopkins University
Justice Department, U.S.
Kennedy, John F.
Kenya
Khoisan people
Klebs, Edwin
Koch, Robert
Kochi, Arata
Kuna people
Kutcher, Ashton
Laifer, Lance
Lancet, The
La Niña
Laveran, Alphonse
League of Nations-62
Lebanon
Ledger, Charles
Ledgeriana trees Leinengen versus the Ants (radio play)
Lepes, Tibor
LePrince, Joseph
leprosy
Lesseps, Ferdinand de
Lewis, Timothy
Liberia
Li Guoqiao
Lines, Jo
Litsios, Socrates
Little Ice Age
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Livingstone, David
Livingstone, Mary
London Daily Mail
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London Society of Arts
Long, Richard
Louisiana; during Civil War
Lydus, John
Lyle, Clay
MacArthur, General Douglas
Macaulay, Lord Thomas Babington
Macedonia
Madagascar
Mad Cow Disease
Malaria No More
Malawi; economic impact of malaria in; traditional village culture in
Malaysia
Mamani, Manuel Incra
Mande languages
Man’s Mastery of Malaria (Russell)
Manson, Patrick
Mao Zedong
Marathon Oil
Marshall Plan
Martini, Erich
Martinique
Maryland, colonial
Massachusetts
Massachusetts General Hospital
McCutchan, Tom
McElwee, Pamela
measles
Médecins Sans Frontières
Medical Times and Gazette, The
Medicines for Malaria Venture
Mendis, Kamini
Metropolitan Museum (New York)
miasmatic theory
Michigan
Michigan, University of
Michigan State University
Middle Ages
milldams
Mills, Anne
Mindanao
mining
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (Livingstone)
Mohéli Island
Morocco
Mosquirix
Mosquitoes, Malaria, and Man (Harrison)
Motta, Jorge
Mozambique
Msechu, June
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria
mululuza
Muppets, the
Mussolini, Benito
Myanmar
Nájera, José
Namibia
Naples
National Academies, Institute for Medicine of
National Cancer Institute
National Malaria Society
Native Americans
Nature (journal)
Navy, U.S.
Ndoye, Tidiane
Netherlands; Kina Bureau; colonies of
New England; colonial
New Guinea
New Jersey
Newman, Peter
New Mexico, University of
News Corporation
Newsweek
New Yorker, The
New York Times, The
Nicaragua
Nigeria; Ministry of Health
Nightingale, Florence
Nobel Prize
non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
Nothing but Nets
Nott, Josiah Clark
Novartis
Nubian people
nuclear weapons
oil companies
On the Beach (film)
Osler, William
Owen, H. Collinson
Oxford University
Packard, Randall
Palestine
Panama; canal building projects in; Health Department of; Scottish settlers in; Spanish colonization of
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Pan American Sanitary Bureau
Pan American Sanitary Conference (1954)
Papua New Guinea
parasitism
Paris Green
Paterson, William
Peace Corps
Pécoul, Bernard
Pelletier, Pierre
People in Red
Perkins, John
Peru
pesticides, see DDT; insecticides
petroleum industry
Philippines
Pilgrims
plague
Plasmodium; in ancient world; artemisinin and; DDT and; evolution of; genetic diversity of; identification of mosquito as carrier of; microscopic discovery of; morphology and physiology of; mosquito behavior and; plants alkaloids and (see also cinchona bark); quinine and; research on vaccine against; slave trade and species: P. falciparum (see also falciparum malaria); P. knowlesi; P. malariae; P. ovale; P. vivax
Plymouth colony
pneumonia
pneumonic plague
Politico.com
Poliziano, Angelo
polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
Popular Mechanics
populism, American
Portugal: colonies of; missionaries from
Powell, Nathaniel
Prebble, John
Protestants
Puritans
Pygmy people
pyrethrum
Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Blantyre, Malawi)
quinacrine
quinine; artemisinin compared with; for cerebral malaria; effect on Plasmodium of; obstacles to widespread use of; prophylactic use of; side effects of; synthetic, see chloroquine; quinacrine; during World War II
Raleigh, Walter
Reed, Major Walter
Republican Party
Revolutionary War, see American Revolution
rheumatic fever
Rhodesia
Riamet
Ritchie, Thomas
Rocco, Fiammetta
Rochester City Newspaper
Rockefeller, John D.
Rockefeller Foundation
Rohwer, Sievert
Roll Back Malaria (RBM)
Roman Catholic Church
Rome; ancient
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosenberg, Tina
Ross, Ronald
Roubaud, Emile
Royal Air Force
Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Society
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Ruggles, Joseph
Ruskin, John
Russell, Paul
Russia; in World War I
Sabot, Oliver
Sacculina carcini
Sachs, Jeffrey
Sammonicus, Serenus
Sanaria
Sanofi-Aventis
Santo Spirito hospital (Rome)
Sarawak
Sardinia
Sarrail, General Maurice
SARS
Saudi Arabia
Science magazine
Scotland; medical education in; settlers in colonial America from
Senegal; Research Institute
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
Seuss, Dr.
Seydel, Karl
Shortt, H. E.
Sicily
Silent Spring (Carson)
Simmons, James Stevens
Singapore
Sixtus V, Pope
slaves: African, see African slaves; in ancient Rome; Native American
sleeping sickness
smallpox; eradication campaign against; vaccines against
Smith, John B.
Snowden, Frank
Solomon Islands
Soper, Fred
Soren, David
South, University of the
South Africa
Soviet Union; nuclear weapons testing in
Spain; American colonies of
Spearpoint, C. F.
Spice Islands
Spielman, Andrew
Sri Lanka
State Department, U.S. (see also International Development Advisory Board)
Steketee, Rick
Stendhal
Sternberg, George Miller
Stevens, General J.E.S.
Straits Times
Sudan
Suez Canal
sulphur insecticides
; Sumatra
Sumeria
Suriname
Swellengrebel, N. H.
Switzerland; Tropical Institute of
Sydenham, Thomas
Taft, William Howard
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Talbor’s Wonderful Secret
Tanzania
Taylor, Norman
Taylor, Terrie
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
terrorism
tetanus
Texas
Thailand
Them! (film)
Time magazine
Tommasi-Crudeli, Corrado
Torres Strait Islands
Townshend, Charles
tuberculosis
Turkey
Twitter
typhoid
typhus
Uganda
United Nations; Children’s Fund (UNICEF); Food and Agriculture Organization; Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
United States; antitrust suit against Kina Bureau by; DDT in; endangered species in; entomological research in; eradication campaign funded by; history of malaria in; nuclear weapons testing in; and Panama Canal; public health service of; racism in; support for international antimalarial projects from; in Vietnam War; in World War II; see also specific government agencies and departments; specific states
U2
vaccines
Vargas, Gertülio
Varro, Marcus Terentius
Vatican
Vedic sagas
Venezuela
Veto the ’Squito
Viele, General Egbert L.
Vietnam; war in
Vileisis, Ann
Virginia colonial
Visigoths
Vogt, William
Wafer, Lionel
Wall Street Journal, The
Walpole, Horace
Washington, George
Washington Monument
Washington Post, The
Watson, Malcolm
Webb, James
Welch, S. W.
West Nile virus
West Point, U.S. Military Academy at
Whorton, James
Wirth, Dyann
Wisconsin
World Bank
World Health Assembly
World Health Organization (WHO); and AIDS crisis; artemisinin policies of; on cerebral malaria; and chloroquine resistance; environmental impacts of economic development cited by; eradication campaigns of; establishment of; estimates of worldwide malaria deaths by; on intermittent preventive therapy for infants; Roll Back Malaria and; and vaccine research
World Malaria Day
World Swim Against Malaria
World War I
World War II
yellow fever; vaccine against
Zaire
Zambia
Zanzibar
Zgambo, Joseph
Zhou Yiqing
Zimbabwe
Zimmer, Carl
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and the critically acclaimed author of The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World’s Poorest Patients and Crude: The Story of Oil. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New Scientist, The Nation, and elsewhere.
