Acquired immunity against malaria as a tool for the control of the disease: the strategy proposed by the Malaria Commission of the League of Nations in 1933.
The Third General Report of the Malaria Commission, printed in 1933, suggested for the control of malaria a strategy aimed to promote the acquisition of a "relative immunity" through a non radical treatment of the infected people living in highly endemic areas. The paper discusses the content of the Report and describes the scientific (empirical) premises on which it stood. Moreover, it illustrates the criticism that was directed against the immunological strategy and that eventually led to its abandonment.
Corbellini
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Istituto di Parassitologia, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italia.
D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D008288:Malaria / Q000266:history* / Q000276:immunology / Q000517:prevention & control