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How Malaria Shaped America | NOVA

Today, Malaria is considered a tropical disease, but it wasn’t always that way. Around the 1900s, parts of the United States were awash with Malaria—especially in the South and parts of the Eastern Seaboard. And it even has impacted major historical events like the American Revolution.