malaria timeline (1 Viewer)

[silvermoon]

hey all! just wondering - i've heard that there's been a new discovery in the treatment of malaria just recently (something to do with a realy cheap herbal remedy???). anyway, before i go looking up info on it, i was wondering whether it's too recent to include in the dot point that requires you to learn the history of malaria? i mean, its a new discovery, but they dont know how effectiv eit will be in the long term - so what do you think? include or too recent?

 

[babydoll_]

they probably wont expect you to know it, but you can always insert it as a demonstration of how knowledgable. they only expect the major events, like quinine and that.

 

[roseangel]

A very basic timeline would be:

Development of our understanding of malaria:
*18 BC The disease malaria was described by the Romans. Malaria was thought to come from swamps so the name means ‘bad air’
* 1820 Quinine used to prevent the disease
* 1880 Charles Laveran, a French army doctor observed the malarial parasite in the blood
* 1886 Golgi observed asexual reproduction in the protozoan Plasmodium and identified two species
*1898 Giovanni Grassi named the Anopheles mosquito as the carrier of the malarial parasite
* 1897 Ronald Ross discovered that Plasmodium was the protozoan that caused the disease malaria.
* 1898 Ross described complete lifecycle of the malaria parasite
* Early 1900s Chemical structure of quinine was determined
* 1940 Chloroquine the first synthetic anti-malarial drug was used
* 1940s Shown that patients with sickle-cell anaemia are more resistant to malaria because the parasite cannot live in their sickle shaped red blood cells

 

[Dr_Doom]

I just googled it and got these sites:

http://www.museums.org.za/bio/apicomplexa/history_of_malaria.htm
http://www.rds-online.org.uk/pages/page.asp?i_ToolbarID=3&i_PageID=37
http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dy...w-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/224/Bradley/History.html

They look pretty useful.