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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
卷 108, 期 4, 页码 646-649出版社
AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0672
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The U.S. Civil War predates modern understanding of malaria, but it was still a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in soldiers. Civil War-era descriptions of malaria may appear contradictory to modern readers, but there are reasonable explanations for these paradoxes that acknowledge the astute clinical observations made during that time.
The U.S. Civil War (1861-1865) pre-dated modern understanding of malaria. Yet, malarial diseases (remittent fever, intermittent fever, typho-malarial fever) were frequently reported as causes of morbidity and mortality in soldiers. Modern readers find Civil War-era descriptions of malaria contradictory or paradoxical. For example, although the concept of race-specific immunity to tropical diseases was widely accepted, malaria mortality rates were reportedly more than three times higher among Black than White Union soldiers (16/1,000/year versus 5/1,000/year). Also, malaria rates were report-edly lower among prisoners of war at the infamous Andersonville, GA, prison camp than among Confederate soldiers in the same area. Literally tons of quinine were given prophylactically to Union soldiers deployed in the southern United States, but blackwater fever was not reported by medical officers. All three paradoxes have reasonable modern explanations that give credence to the astute clinical observations of our scientific predecessors during the U.S. Civil War.
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