The Lancet Infectious Disease
Jun 2009  Volume 9  Number 6  Pages 331 – 392
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/issue/current

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Humanity’s burden: a global history of malaria
Talha Burki
The third work by Jim Webb (Colby College, Maine, USA), Humanity’s Burden: A Global History of Malaria begins by establishing malaria’s longevity: “a primordial companion of our distant protohuman ancestors and an even earlier companion of the chimpanzees from which we branched off six or seven million years ago”.