"Back to the Jungle": investigating rats, grass, scrub typhus, and plantations in Malaya, 1924 - 1974
In this article, I examine epidemiological research into scrub typhus in British Malaya between 1924 and 1974. Interwar research, I show, explained the incidence of the disease through conjunctions of rats, mites, plantations, lalang grass, and "jungle." In the process, interwar researcher...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/169961 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |