The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

This deep dive into humanity's very long fight against malaria is "a vivid and compelling history with a message that's entirely relevant today" (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction).

In a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we've known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1...