Molluscan Explosion: The Dutch Shipworm Epidemic of the 1730s
An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.
An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.
Combating malaria through travel, diet, natural remedies, and architecture in early modern England.
Effective strategies for rat control based on ecology were invented in Baltimore in the 1940s. The program, however, did not last.
Garcia follows the migration of the American cockroach from its tropical origins in western Africa via slave ships to the New World.
Epidemic yellow fever plagued New Orleans due to a series of environmental and demographic changes enabled by the rise of sugar production and urban development.
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A case study of the effects of malaria in the Caucasus across the revolutionary divide of 1917.
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