TYPES OF MALARIAL FEVER
MAN AND ANIMALS AFFECTED “Malaria is a collective terms for a group of diseases caused by several species of blood-infesting protozoa mainly of the genus Plasmodium. Thtaa blood parasites are by no means confined to man, though certain specie* are peculiar to him and cause definite types of malarial fever," said Dr D Mililer in the course of a lecture on mosquitoes and malaria given at the monthly meeting of the Nelson Philosophical Society. “On the other hand there are other species peculiar to and producing fevers in such animals as the monkey, chimpanzee, orang-outang, bat. squirrel, birds, lizards, etc. So far as is known, the only one of these species infesting the lower animaJs that can produce fever in man. is that of the monkey, but only by artificial infection This has been used in malaria-therapv in the treatment of general paralysis. Bird malaria occurs in New ealand. having been found in the blood of the thrush. European lark and native ground-lark.’ *
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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