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The History of Malaria

  • 2700 BCE

    Malaria Symptoms Described

    Symptoms of malaria described back to ancient Chinese medical writings.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 400 BCE

    Malaria recognised in Greece

    Caused a decline in population in many areas of Greece
  • Period: to

    Malaria Cure Discovered

    Spanish Missionaries in the New World were taught by local tribes that the medicine quinine found in Peruvian bark cured malaria.
  • Malaria Parasite Discovered

    A French army surgeon, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran noticed parasites in the blood of one of his patients who was suffering from malaria
  • Period: to

    Malaria Parasites Named

    The differentiation of malaria species was discovered by the Italian Neurophysiologist, Camillo Golgi and the malaria parasites were named.

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