In this Renaissance painting, we see Cosimo, Giovanni and Piero Medici. Some of their family members may have died from deadly malaria, possibly from mosquitos in their hunting grounds.Image credit: Peter Barritt/Alamy Stock Photo
In this Renaissance painting, we see Cosimo, Giovanni and Piero Medici. Some of their family members may have died from deadly malaria, possibly from mosquitos in their hunting grounds.Image credit: Peter Barritt/Alamy Stock Photo
I bet they wished they had DDT.
There are a lot of assumptions made in the article, not the least of which at the individual caught that particular type of malaria locally. They made their money through trade, correct? Wouldn’t that apply some sort of travel? I suppose it is possible they caught the disease while hunting on there hunting grounds, but there is no evidence of that.
Your threads are always SO interesting… 🙂
DDT almost had malaria eradicated when Rachael Carson published her book, “Silent Spring”, using falsified and incorrect data stating that DDT had a myriad of bad effects. Had it not been banned worldwide malaria would be a post script in epidemiological studies.
