MALARIA IN CANADA used to be a problem. Malaria? Ottawa? Go figure. Paul McManus has a site, Mysteries of Canada, check it out.
A tail dragging romp through the swamps of the world
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Historical problem . . .
MALARIA IN CANADA used to be a problem. Malaria? Ottawa? Go figure. Paul McManus has a site, Mysteries of Canada, check it out.
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One of the design goals for the Rideau Canal was to reduce the incidence of such diseases by drowning a bunch of extensive swamps. (Even if the theory of the day was concerned with "fetid humors".)
It's a related disease, rather than the same disease, as tropical malaria; the symptoms are pretty similar but the Ontario version is modernly 0% lethal absent complications.
Being cold and hungry and tired and never really dry are quite effective complications, which is what happened during the canal building.
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