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Malarai was not identified until later but in 2700BC the symptoms of malaria; chills, high fever, sweating, headache, diarrhea, and several more; were descriped in the Chinese Nei Ching
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Quinine becomes a common treatment for fever (later identified as malaria)
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran notices parasites in the blood of an infected person
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Camillo Golgi recognized two forms of malaria (tertian periodicity and quartan periodicity)
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Sir Ronald Ross discovered that mosquitoes transmitted malaria between people. The disease is small enough it can be sucked up by the mosquito and then transmitted to the next person that they bite. -
During the construction of the Panama Canal 21,000 of the 26,000 employees were hospitalized due to malaria
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Anti-malarial drug Chloroquine was discovred by Hans Andersag in Germany
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The insectidice DDT was discovered by Paul Hermann Muller, he later received a Nobel Prize for this
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Malaria was considered to be eliminated in the United States
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The Global Malaria Eradication Campaign was launched by WHO
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Today's most advanced malaria vaccine cadidate entered clinical trials
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Insecticide-treated bednets were proven to reduce childhood dealths by 20% in an African study
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WHO prequalified the first fixed-dose Artemisinin combination therapy (ACT), Coartem, and recommended it as the top malaria treatment
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The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria was established and has provided funding for 122 million bed nets and 142.4 million malaria drug treatments
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World Malaria Day, April 25th, was instituted by the World Health Assembly at its 60th session
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