How does the paragraph expand on the central idea that
malaria was a deadly disease in elizabethan england?
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read the excerpt from the time traveler's guide to
elizabethan england.
another familiar disease is malaria, which elizabethans refer
to as ague or fever. you might associate this with more
tropical countries of the modern world but in marshy areas in
sixteenth-century england, such as the lincolnshire and
cambridgeshire fens, the norfolk broads, and romney
marsh in kent, it kills thousands. no one suspects that it has
at it has
anything to do with mosquitoes; rather people believe it is the
corrupted air arising from the low-lying dank marsh (hence
the term mal-aria). as a result, you will have no chance of
getting proper treatment for the disease.
it proves that malaria is spread by mosquitoes in
swampy areas.
it gives a detailed description of the area known as
romney marsh.
it explains elizabethan misconceptions about the spread
of malaria.
it compares common malaria symptoms to influenza
symptoms.