16th May 2012, 12:55 PM
Although no incidence of malaria has been found recently in the Uk, there is plenty of historical evidence for it in the past particularly in the Kent and Essex marsh area along the Thames. I remember an evaluation by the former Passmore Edwards museum coming across living anopheles mosquitos on the Rainham marshes in the 1990s. It seems the agent is present there if not the disease.
There is a book 'Plagues' by Chris Wills which documents the occurrence of malaria in northern Europe (particularly in Denmark) and action taken to eradicate the disease (basic hygiene really. Don't leave piles of pig shit around that allow the insect to shelter and survive northern European winters)....
There is a book 'Plagues' by Chris Wills which documents the occurrence of malaria in northern Europe (particularly in Denmark) and action taken to eradicate the disease (basic hygiene really. Don't leave piles of pig shit around that allow the insect to shelter and survive northern European winters)....
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