Another Look at the "Fever and Ague" of Western Oregon

There has been some question about the identity of the illness variously called "fever and ague" or "intermittent fever" which appeared among the Indians of the lower Columbia and Willamette Valleys in the early 1830's. After a review of available evidence, this paper conclu...

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Published inEthnohistory Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 135 - 154
Main Author Boyd, Robert T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Society for Ethnohistory 1975
Indiana University
Subjects
Diseases
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Fever
History, Modern 1601
Malaria
Malaria - history
Mortality
Mosquitos
Symptoms
Tuberculosis
United States
White people
United States
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Summary:There has been some question about the identity of the illness variously called "fever and ague" or "intermittent fever" which appeared among the Indians of the lower Columbia and Willamette Valleys in the early 1830's. After a review of available evidence, this paper concludes that the disease was malaria and attempts a reconstruction of the events surrounding its appearance. Identification of fever and ague as malaria facilitates the formation of certain hypotheses about the epidemic's interaction with particular aspects of the native Chinookan and Kalapuyan cultures.
ISSN:0014-1801
1527-5477
DOI:10.2307/481642