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Malaria and Rome is the 1st entire publication at the heritage of malaria in Roman Italy. aimed toward an interdisciplinary readership, it explores the evolution and ecology of malaria, its scientific and demographic results on human populations in antiquity, its social and fiscal results, the human responses to it, and the human interpretations of it.

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