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Discovery of Malaria

June 7, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION Who was the discoverer of malaria? ANSWER Malaria has been known to humans since ancient times, though what exactly caused it and how it was transmitted was not known. The parasite which causes malaria, from the genus Plasmodium, was first observed in the blood of a patient who had died from the disease by Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French physician working in Algeria. … [Read more...]

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Malaria Origins

June 4, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION What is the origin of malaria? ANSWER Malaria is caused by a single-celled parasite of the genus Plasmodium. There are five difference species of Plasmodium which infect humans - these all likely evolved from various different species of Plasmodium which infect other primates, such as gorillas (for P. falciparum) and macaques (P. vivax, P. knowlesi, possibly other types as well). … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, evolution of malaria, Nobel Prize, parasite, Plasmodium, Ronald Ross, trabsmission

Who Discovered Malaria?

January 4, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION Who discovered malaria? ANSWER People have known about malaria for thousands of years—the first record of it comes from 2700 BCE, in an ancient Chinese medical text. Other ancient peoples, such as the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, also knew the symptoms associated with malaria. But it wasn't until the 19th century that the causes of malaria were understood. In 1880, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: ancient chinese, Camillo Golgi, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Egyptians, Greeks, Nobel Prize, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium Vivax, Romans, Ronald Ross

How did it get the name “malaria”?

November 2, 2011 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION How did malaria get its name? ANSWER The word "malaria" comes from Italian, "mala aria" which literally translates to "bad air". This came from the ancient association, traced back as far as the ancient Greeks and Romans, that the disease was associated with swampy, marshy areas where the air smelled bad. The mechanism of transmission was not known back then, nor did they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, History of malaria, mala aria, malaria etymology, Nobel Prize, Ronald Ross

Discovery of Mosquito Causing Malaria

October 3, 2011 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION: Who found that malaria was caused by a mosquito? ANSWER: The man who first discovered that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes was a British Army doctor called Ronald Ross. Working in India in 1897-1898, Ross demonstrated how malaria parasites could be transmitted first between a patient and a mosquito, and then between hosts via mosquitoes (this latter work was done using … [Read more...]

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