Yesterday I taped an interview with Terry Gross for the NPR show “Fresh Air.” I’m a big fan of Terry’s and it was lovely to speak to her. We talked about the wily parasite Plasmodium, my own love/hate/guilt relationship with mosquitoes and malaria, malaria during WWI and WWII, and how mosquitoes are the original vampires. The interview is expected to broadcast sometime the week of July 19 or thereabouts.
Also, this Saturday, look out for my essay on “The Abracadabra Cure”–my term for anti-malaria quick-fixes, coined for the second-century Roman anti-malarial incantation (yes, it was “Abracadabra”)–in the Wall Street Journal.
