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“Malarial Swamp.” Landscape view of a marshy landscape with a few scattered trees. Mal’aria, literally meaning ‘bad air’, was linked with poisonous vapours of swamps for centuries. It is now known that malaria is transmitted by the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes, which abound in humid, swampy areas. The term malaria, without the apostrophe, evolved into the name of the disease only in the 19th century. Up to that point the various intermittent fevers had been called jungle fever, marsh fever, paludal fever, or swamp fever.
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