The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years (52 page)

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