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Malaria noun - An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever.
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- In one book of the Little House on the Prairie series, the entire Ingalls family comes down with "fever 'n' ague", later (and in hindsight) identified as malaria.
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Disease By Any Other Name: In one of the early novels, the Ingalls family contracts "fever 'n' ague" (identified as malaria in retrospect).
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