The infectious disease malaria has been recoreded in our history for more than 4,000 years. The word malaria is Italian for "bad air." The first time it was recorded was in 2700 bc. in chinese medical writing. The disease was then seen in Greece in the 4th century bc. Hippocrates was credited with noting the principal symptoms and by Pericles time, there were many references to malaria in Literature. There was also a definite decline in population for rural areas. In the early 17th century there was a breakthrough in medicine that cured fevers. The Indians showed the Spanish a bark named Peruvian Bark, which is now known as one of the most effective antimalarial drugs, quinine.
There are many famous men that contributed to the findings and understandings of malaria. Alphonse Laveran was the first to notice parasites in the blood of a patient with malaria. Camillo Golgi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 for discovering that there are two forms of malaria and multiple parasites that cause it. Ronald Ross was the first to demonstrate that a mosquito could transmit a malaria parasite.
Malaria has caused major projects and events in our history to delay and death has proved that to be true. While working on the Panama Canal, 21,000 out of 26,000 workers were hospitalized from the disease. Both the World Wars were also greatly affected by malaria.
There are many famous men that contributed to the findings and understandings of malaria. Alphonse Laveran was the first to notice parasites in the blood of a patient with malaria. Camillo Golgi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1906 for discovering that there are two forms of malaria and multiple parasites that cause it. Ronald Ross was the first to demonstrate that a mosquito could transmit a malaria parasite.
Malaria has caused major projects and events in our history to delay and death has proved that to be true. While working on the Panama Canal, 21,000 out of 26,000 workers were hospitalized from the disease. Both the World Wars were also greatly affected by malaria.