If they ask this, I am dead...there is a reason I didn't choose any histories, terrible at remembering names and dates
does anyone have a really short summary for this?
-4 BC: Greeks though that symptoms of malaria caused by breathing in marsh vapours or bites of insects that live in marshes
-1880: Laveran observed micro-organisms in flash blood from malarial patients and suggested that malaria was caused by this micro-organism
-1886: Golgi observed asexual reproduction of microbe in blood of patients
-1894: Patrick Manson proposed that malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes
-1898: Grassi discovered that malaria was transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito
-1897-1899: Ronal Ross established that the protozoan Plasmodium was the cause of malaria, winning the Noble Prize
-Early 20th: Treatments of malaria were developed, including anti-malarial drugs such as quinine. Efforts to stop the spread of malaria include using DDT to kill the disease vector – the mosquito
-Today: Resistance to quinine and other drugs by the Plasmodium, as well as DDT resistance by the mosquitoes has become a problem. Development of a malarial vaccine is the main direction research is doing