| | That was interesting. I am not convinced that it will "make a difference." We who liked it knew that we would agree with it. From all the facts offered, I remembered immediately only the claim about malaria deaths in Archangel So, I checked that out.
This article was archived twice. It is a secondary reference from the Centers for Disease Control.
Perspectives
From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age
Paul Reiter
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico
From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice AgeFrom 1564 to the 1730s—the coldest period of the Little Ice Age—malaria was an important cause ... with high death rates as far north as Archangel, Russia. ...
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From the National Institutes of Health, another reference. What is interesting, however, is the time cited, World War II, as being the initial report of malaria in Archangel, though the "Swindle: film (and other sources) point to the 1920s.
Whatever the reasons, all sorts of social changes resulted in an epidemic.
Infectious diseases take advantage of what I call undercurrent opportunity.
Malaria is a good example. In World War II, malaria was reported in Archangel,
north of the Arctic Circle, for the first time in history, but now it has retreated all
the way back to the tropics. The mosquito is still there in Archangel, but malaria
is not. There is an old saying in the Mediterranean, that "malaria flees before the
plow"; but, as I have noted "it returns on the wings of war." Undercurrents of
opportunities—it is true for every infectious disease.
http://aidshistory.nih.gov/transcripts/transcripts/Krause88.pdf
This World Health Organization report puts the time of the Archangel epidemin int he 1920s.
"The most affected areas were the Caucasus (including North Caucasus), Ukraine,
Central Asia, Volga Region and in the south of Western Siberia. However, other parts of
European Russia were being affected by serious epidemics from time to time. In the north, the
limit of malaria (P. vivax) was up to the latitude of Archangel in Europe (64°) and Yakoutsk in
eastern Siberia (62°)."
Report on the
INFORMAL CONSULTATION ON THE ELIMINATION OF
RESIDUAL MALARIA FOCI AND PREVENTION OF
RE-INTRODUCTION OF MALARIA
Rabat, Morocco, 18 – 20 June 2002
http://www.emro.who.int/rbm/Publications/MoroccoMeeting.pdf A report from 1924, a "daily history" or journal.
I887 TAGESGESCHICHTE.
Diphtherie, Seharlach. und Polyomyelitis zeigen fiberall niedrige Zahlen. Die Malaria. in RuBIand ist gegeniiber dem Vorjahr in Archangel, M0skau nnd ...
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Journal of Molecular Medicine
Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN 0946-2716 (Print) 1432-1440 (Online)
Subject Biomedical and Life Sciences and Medicine
Issue Volume 3, Number 41 / October, 1924
I think that reports from CDC, NIH and WHO are more credible than those from the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute's touting of coal power (fine though coal may be), which are at once politically motivated and secondary material.
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