The detail that most clearly develops the central idea in the first question is “And yet, despite the millennia-long battles between us, malaria still manages to infect at least three hundred million of us— . . . and kills nearly one million, year after year.” (paragraph 2).
The first question has the central idea that the malaria pathogen has not become less deadly over the centuries.
This is proven by the fact that even though humanity has fought the malaria pathogen for thousands of years, it still infects millions every year and leads to the death of almost of million people.
This means that the pathogen is still very strong and has not grown to be less deadly like measles and smallpox.
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