Article: The bark that beat the bite.

Article: 5 days in the life of FIAMMETTA ROCCO
The Independent - London;  March 9, 1997 ;     700+ words ...MONDAY: Five weeks ago, I became a mother for the first time. Tosca weighed 6lb 12oz. She lay uncurling herself on my tummy, her black hair so different from my red head. She is mine, I thought, and already quite herself. I wiped her clean with my hand, feeling triumphant and so vulnerable. "You'll

Article: Bark better than bite Anthony Daniels on the story of how ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 29, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Cure that Changed the World by Fiammetta Rocco HarperCollins, pounds ... susceptibility to malaria. In this book, Fiammetta Rocco traces the history ... emphasises the part malaria played in 17th ...

Article: Challenging battle against malaria.(Ents Theatre Arts)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  July 22, 2003 ;     466 words ... ... Miraculous Fever-Tree by Fiammetta Rocco (HarperCollins, pounds 16 ... most persistent enemies is malaria or "mal'aria" (bad air ... horrific effects. As the malaria parasite reproduces in the ... creating the killer, cerebral malaria. The story of fighting it ...

Article: Challenging battle against malaria.(Features)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);  July 22, 2003 ;     474 words ... ... Miraculous Fever-Tree by Fiammetta Rocco (HarperCollins, pounds 16 ... most persistent enemies is malaria or "mal'aria" (bad air ... horrific effects. As the malaria parasite reproduces in the ... creating the killer, cerebral malaria. The story of fighting it ...

Article: The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria and the Quest for a ...
Science News;  September 20, 2003 ;     461 words ...FIAMMETTA ROCCO Growing up in Africa, Rocco was touched directly by malaria. She had it; her father ... For hundreds of years, malaria was a scourge that plagued ... came to a halt in 1889 when malaria and yellow fever struck ...

Article: SECOND OPINION A cure for malaria lay concealed in the ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  November 16, 2008 ;     587 words ... ... prevented millions of deaths from malaria. The G&T is reputedly the ... masking the bitterness of the malaria- preventing quinine in tonic ... recounted by the exotically named Fiammetta Rocco in her book The Miraculous ... be effective in combating malaria, which in Rome had just killed ...

Article: THE MIRACULOUS FEVER-TREEBOOKS / Nonfiction
International Herald Tribune;  August 16, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... 0000 THE MIRACULOUS FEVER-TREE Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the WorldBy Fiammetta Rocco. 348 pages. HarperCollins ... certainly has the inside track on malaria. She has had it herself. Her ...