 Book review
Malaria eradication in Mexico: Some historico-parasitological views on
Cold war, deadly fevers by Marcos Cueto, Ph.DFiliberto Malagón  Laboratorío de Malaríología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria Coyoacán, 04510, Mexico DF, México  author email corresponding author email
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2008,
3:15doi:10.1186/1747-5341-3-15 Abstract
This review of Professor Marcos Cueto's Cold War Deadly Fevers: Malaria Eradication in Mexico, 1955–1975 discusses some of the historical, sociological, political and parasitological topics included in Dr. Cueto's superbly well-informed volume. The reviewer, a parasitologist, follows the trail illuminated by Dr. Cueto through the foundations of the malaria eradication campaign; the release in Mexico of the first postage stamp in the world dedicated to malaria control; epidemiological facts on malarial morbidity and mortality in Mexico when the campaign began; the emergence of problem areas that impeded eradication; considerations on mosquitoes and malaria transmission in Mexico; the role of business and society in malaria eradication; the results of the campaign; the relationship between malaria and poverty; and the parasitological lessons to be learned from the history of malaria eradication campaigns. Dr. Cueto's excellent and well-informed exploration of malaria – not merely as a disease but as a social, economic and human problem – makes this book required reading. | 
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