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Agriculture, U.S. Department of (USDA)

AIDS

Alabama; during Civil War; Supreme Court of; University of

Alabama Power Company

Alaric the Visigoth

Alexander VI, Pope

Algeria

Algonquins

Allen, Thomas

Al Qaeda

Amazon

American colonies: English; Spanish

American Enterprise Institute
American Idol
(television program)

American Medical Association (AMA)

American Red Cross

American Revolution

Andersen, Hans Christian

Angola

Anopheles
mosquitoes; DDT and; in England; Gorgas on; habitats of;
identification as malaria vector of

species:
A. albimanus
;
A. albitarsis
;
A. aquasalis
;
A. arabienses
;
A. atroparvus
;
A. crucians
;
A. darlingii
;
A. dirus
;
A. farauti
;
A. gambiae
;
A. labranchiae
;
A. maculipennis
;
A. messeae
;
A. punctimacula
;
A. punctipennis
;
A. quadrimaculatus
;
A. rossi
;
A. stephensi
;
A. subpictus
;
A. superpictus

Arenco Pharmaceuticals

Arizona, University of

Armed Forces Radio

Army, U.S.

artemether-lumefantrine

Artemisia annua

artemisinin; combination therapy (ACT)

Asante Empire

Asian Malaria Conference (1954)

Atebrin,
see
quinacrine

Atlantic languages

Attaran, Amir

Australia; in World War II

avian flu

Azerbaijan

Bacillus malariae

Bank of England

Bantu peoples

Barbados

Bass, Willie

Bataan

Bate, Roger

Beatty, Alfred Chester

bed nets; insecticide-treated

Begum, Shahida

Bethesda Naval Hospital

Bignami, Amico

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Billiton Mining

Binka, Fred

bin Ladin, Osama

Bioko Island

Blanton, Wyndham

Bloland, Peter

Boardman, Elijah

Boardman, William

Bolivia

Bono

Borland, Francis

Borneo

Boyle, T. C.

Bradford, William

Brazil; colonial

Bridgeland, John

Britain; African colonies of; American colonies of; during Little Ice Age; Parliament; slave trade opposed by; in World War I;
in World War II;
see also
India, British Raj in

British Broadcasting Company (BBC)

British Medical Association

British Medical Journal

Brown, Gordon

Brown, Peter

Bruce-Chwatt, Leonard

Brundtland, Gro

Brunei

Buddhists

Buel, Dr.

Bulgaria

Burma

Burnett v. Alabama Power Company
(1916)

Bush, George W.

Buxton, Thomas Fowell

Cable News Network (CNN)

Caesar, Julius

Calcutta Medical School

Calzada, José

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

cancer

Candau, Marcolino

Caracalla, Emperor

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