In recent years, Malaria has emerged as a cause celebre for voguish philanthropists. ".
The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity.
How does a parasitic disease that we\'ve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect three hundred million people every year, killing nearly one million of them? In The Fever , the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer this question, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives.
Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have opened their pocketbooks in hopes of eradicating the scourge.
In recent years, Malaria has emerged as a cause celebre for voguish philanthropists