[Answer] The word "malaria" is derived from two words that literally translate to what?

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The word "malaria" is derived from two words that literally translate to what?

• Bad air:The word malaria comes from two medieval Italian words, "mal" and "aria," which when put together mean "bad air." This came about before people understood that the disease was passed from a parasite carried by misquotes who lived in the wet ground, and not through "the bad air of swamps". In 1897, Britain’s Sir Ronald Ross, an army surgeon working in India, was the first person to prove that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes, an event now commemorated by World Mosquito Day. Malaria is one of the more deadly diseases in the history of mankind.

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