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Attempts to discover which diseases were present in the Pacific before the arrival of Europeans and which were subsequently introduced, drawing on historical writings, linguistic evidence, reports of past epidemics, and investigations of established indigenous medical treatments. Presents a new theory of the spread of malaria through the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and discusses the absence of acute infectious diseases and the reasons for very high susceptibility of the islanders to such infections when they were introduced by outsiders. Of interest to those in medicine, particularly epidemiology. An appendix explains the cause of infectious diseases for non-medical readers.

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