Historical Development of Malaria (1 Viewer)

[supa-kimbo123]

Anyone got any info on the historical deveopment of malaria.... or major developments towards the understanding of the disease??? n the nature of the micro organism involed in the process???

any info is much appreciated

 

[jeff.wong]

Anyone got any info on the historical deveopment of malaria.... or major developments towards the understanding of the disease??? n the nature of the micro organism involed in the process???

any info is much appreciated

Historical Development [from HSC online]
18 BC
The disease malaria was described by the Romans. Malaria was thought to come from swamps so the name means 'bad air'
1820
Quinine used to prevent the disease
1880
Charles Laveran a French army doctor observed the malarial parasite
1886
Golgi observed asexual reproduction in the protozoan Plasmodium and identified two species
1898
Giovanni Grassi named the Anopheles mosquito as the carrier of the malarial parasite
1897
Ronald Ross discovered that Plasmodium was the protozoan that caused the disease malaria.
1940
Chloroquinine the first synthetic anti-malarial drug was used