Satnam Singh was one of the thousands of Indians working illegally on farms in Italy, especially in the Pontine Marshes area. They are underpaid, and women are even at risk of sexual exploitation.

Two scientists even reported having found the culprit, dubbed Bacillus malariae, in the Pontine Marshes near Rome. But in a military hospital in Algeria, French doctor Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran ...

so called after the Pontine Marshes which Mussolini drained to found Latina, the City of the Duce, and other new towns in the 1930s. (ANSA).