Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World by Robert S. Desowitz

Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?: Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World

Robert S. Desowitz

260 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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Past--and present--tell us that tropical diseases are as American as the heart attack; yellow fever lived happily for centuries in Philadelphia. Malaria liked it fine in Washington, not to mention in the Carolinas where it took right over. The Ebo...

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