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Fighting malaria since the Skeeter beaters
1 Comment Published by naman October 30th, 2008 in HistoryThe military and malaria have a long history together. Regarded as a scourge of soldiers in tropical areas, the disease is said to have been responsible for more casualties than bullets. In fact, military research produced many of our modern antimalarials including resochin (chloroquine) by the Germans prior to World War 2 and mefloquine which [...]
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