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Introduction

Malaria is a parasitic infection, sometimes fatal, that has plagued humankind for millennia. Over that time, it has arguably killed more humans than any other disease, and still today it remains a salient threat to global health security. Malaria has proven notoriously to be difficult to control, in part, due to its complex etiology. The bite of multiple species of female Anopheles mosquitoes transmits plasmodium protozoa. Out of hundreds of plasmodium parasites, only four – Plasmodium vivax, P. falciparum, P. malariae, and P. ovale – infect human hosts where their single or combined presence incur, for the nonimmune, core symptoms of prolonged fevers progressing to, in some cases, fatal cerebral malaria.

Different frameworks and entry points for interventions complicate attempts to reduce malaria’s impact. Malaria is simultaneously (1) a disease subject to entomological management (i.e., the management of insect populations as the vectors of the disease), it is...

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  1. Anthropology Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Chris Lyttleton

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Lyttleton, C. (2019). Malaria. In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_547-1

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