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Alexander the Great has been said to have died from malaria. Why didn't his entire army get infected by mosquitoes carrying it, and why does it seem like the disease is only a recent thing rather than a disease thousands of years old? Do people just catch it more frequently now VS then?

by /u/lgmdnss in /r/AskHistorians

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