In her book “Parasites: Tales of Humanity’s Most Unwelcome Guests”, Rosemary Drisdelle advances the idea that malaria could have been the cause of death for 50 billion people in human history, with most people killed between 8000BC and 1650AD https://buff.ly/2MTMSc8

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