Malaria is not by origin a tropical disease. It is a continental disease imported into India by the leaving behind of large tracts of stagnant water post construction of railway lines. This the British gifted us and we suffer from it even today, although, the idea foisted on us that malaria is a tropical disease continues to hold our ill-informed minds that do not know that it is a Spanish disease in its origin. The massive railway projects of the British undertaken in the latter half of the nineteenth century --- which the British did not undertake by way of development of India by any chance but did purely from the consideration of their own interests of colonial commerce and conquest --- did actually result in the nationwide spread of malaria.
This piece of information I have gathered from the following source whose YouTube link I hereby provide : https://www.youtube.com/
Written by Sugata Bose
Photo : Dr. Kunal Sarkar, the provider of the above piece of information.
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