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Symptoms of malaria described back to ancient Chinese medical writings.
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Caused a decline in population in many areas of Greece
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Spanish Missionaries in the New World were taught by local tribes that the medicine quinine found in Peruvian bark cured malaria.
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A French army surgeon, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran noticed parasites in the blood of one of his patients who was suffering from malaria
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The differentiation of malaria species was discovered by the Italian Neurophysiologist, Camillo Golgi and the malaria parasites were named.