From: Watch out for malaria: still a leading cause of child death worldwide
Historical period | Events |
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Ancient history | Â |
- ≈ 1570 BC | Ebers Papyrus: description of symptoms (fever and spleen enlargement); |
- ≈ 1000 BC | Atharvaveda: description of symptoms and recurrence of the fever; |
- ≈ 460 - 370 BC | Hyppokrates of Kos in his work Epidemie describes the intermittent fever; |
- 340 AD | Ge Hong, China, describes the anti-fever properties of qing hao. |
17 th century | First description of Peruvian bark (Cinchona), from which quinine is extracted. |
1880 | Alphonse Laveran: the discovery of the Malaria parasite. |
1885 - 1889 | Camillo Golgi: the differentiation of different form of Malaria. |
1897 - 1898 | Ronald Ross: the Plasmodium is transmitted by "a mosquito". |
1898 - 1899 | Giovan Battista Grassi: the Plasmodium life cycle. |
1905 - 1910 | The control of malaria and yellow fever make possible the construction of the Panama Canal. |
1914 - 1942 | The U.S. Public Health Services and the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority: the integration of Malaria control with the U.S. economic development |
1934 - 1946 | A new antimalarial drug: chloroquine. |
19 th - 20 th century | Â |
- 1874 | Othmar Zeidler describes the synthesis of DDT; |
- 1939 | Muller demonstrates the insecticidal property of DDT |
1955 - 1978 | WHO Malaria Eradication Efforts: an unsuccessful "global" campaign with the exclusion of sub-Saharan Africa. |
21 st century | The knowledge of genetic map and the research for an effective vaccine. |