Malarious area, Anatom, ca.1890

“Malarial Swamp.” Landscape view of a marshy landscape with a few scattered trees. Mal’aria, literally meaning ‘bad air’, was linked with poisonous vapours of swamps for centuries. It is now known that malaria is transmitted by the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes, which abound in humid, swampy areas. The term malaria, without the apostrophe, evolved into the name of the disease only in the 19th century. Up to that point the various intermittent fevers had been called jungle fever, marsh fever, paludal fever, or swamp fever.

"疟疾沼泽（Malarial Swamp）"。该数据集展现带有零星散布树木的沼泽地貌景观。疟疾（malaria）一词字面意为"坏空气"，数个世纪以来，人们始终将其与沼泽释放的有毒雾气相关联。如今学界已明确，疟疾通过雌性按蚊（Anopheles）的叮咬传播，这类蚊子在潮湿的沼泽地带大量滋生。直到19世纪，去掉撇号的标准拼写形式"malaria"才正式成为该疾病的名称。在此之前，各类间歇性发热曾被称为丛林热（jungle fever）、沼泽热（marsh fever）、瘴热（paludal fever）或swamp fever。