Then, featured in a special exhibit, were half a dozen Minamatas exhibiting insanity, paralysis and coma, some good Ebola river fevers, a fresh Chikungunya all the way from the Philippines, a chicken chucker from Long Semado and an old-fashioned hog butcher from Arkansas.
It doesn't grab you, as a reader, or get its hooks into you; it glides past, like a river or a fever dream.
They include sleeping sickness, yaws, dengue fever, river blindness, Chagas disease and intestinal worms.
But largely it is a luxuriant panorama of gorges, green rivers, peaks like fever charts and undulating forest.
He can talk for hours about hemorrhagic fevers, river blindness, the Barmah Forest virus, and malaria — which, he will be happy to tell you, once nearly killed him.
It is admittedly difficult to argue for keeping a name just because it is euphonious, like Oropouche fever (after a river in Trinidad), or evocative, like Rocky Mountain spotted fever or Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, or because the person who chose it did so in good faith.
Our two-year-old squeals with joy each time we reach the banks of the "great grey-green, greasy Limpopo river, all set about with fever-trees".
The prose is delightfully eloquent and they are full of quotes that instantly find you back in the stories: "Down on the banks of the Great Grey-Green greasy Limpopo river, all set about with fever-trees".
There are also some mathematical models that study fractional derivation on several phenomena like river blindness disease [12]; lassa hemorrhagic fever [13]; rubella disease [14]; immunegenic tumors [15] and heat transfer [16].
Some progress has been made against polio, onchocerciasis (river blindness), schistosomiasis, and leprosy, but yellow fever and cholera are common, and malaria remains a leading cause of death.
