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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.