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From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age

Paul Reiter
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, San Juan, Puerto Rico 


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Figure 1. Estimated mean annual temperatures (°C) prevailing in central England since A.D. 800. These are 50-year averages, based on a variety of proxy data (see text). Dotted lines indicate the range of apparent uncertainty of the derived values.

Redrawn from Lamb (1).


 

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