THE FEVER

In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their namesand opened their pocketbooksin hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when e very emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why arent we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasiti c disease that weve known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 milli on of them?