Americans are often ill prepared for the various exotic diseases they may unfortunately encounter when traveling abroad. One such disease is malaria. Malaria is most common in Asia and Africa. It is so common there, that many of the people who reside there have had it multiple times. Malaria is not so common in the ...
Malaria, the ancient disease thought to have killed King Tut, is a tricky one. It kills millions of people worldwide each year, mainly children in sub-Sahara Africa. In order to understand symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of malaria, you must first understand what causes it and how it comes to be in a person’s body. ...
Artemisia Annua, a common weed, is known by many names including annual wormwood, sweet annie, and sweet wormwood. It is a highly aromatic herb grown natively in Asia and Eastern Europe. Artemisia is easily grown and prefers a sunny location with well drained soil. Artemisia Annua will grow in poorer soils as long as the ...
It’s taken us a while to catch on to malaria. We still call it “bad air”, as in “the bad night air made him sick”, but we feel a little less dumb because we do so in French (mal aria). And the disease is caused by something that comes in through the window: mosquitoes. If ...
