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The malaria parasite
A malaria parasite--in its slivery, infective form called "sporozoite"--pictured inside...
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Scene of drug-resistant malaria outbreak in Panama, 2005
Chloroquine-resistant falciparum malaria first emerged in southeast Asia in 1957. By 2005, it had...
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Staff of a malaria clinic in Cameroon
Three thousand children die of malaria every day in Africa. Here, the large staff of a Red Cross...
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The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Anopheles albimanus
Anopheles albimanus engorged with blood. By James Gathany. From the Centers for Disease Control. phil.cdc.gov/phil/deta ils.asp
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Public Health Bulletin, Nanking, China
In this undated poster from the Public Health Bulletin in Nanking, China, malaria is depicted as a...
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"This is Ann...she drinks blood!"
With 95 percent of the world's quinine under the control of the Germans and Japanese during...
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"Fight the peril behind the lines"
Wartime anti-malaria posters imagined malarial mosquitoes as enemy invaders, a metaphor used to drum...
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Soldiers suffering malaria in makeshift hospital in New Guinea, WWII
U.S. military leaders were at first dismissive of the need for anti-malarial measures during the...
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Whiskey and Quinine Rations during the Civil War
During the U.S. Civil War, Union troops suffered 1.3 million cases of malaria. Ten thousand died. In...
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"Rentree d'orient," [Return from the Orient]
In this WW1-era poster, a French soldier is pictured returning home from the eastern front;...
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Detail from Hortus Sanitatis, 1491
Ancient peoples suspected that insects carried disease long before scientists discovered their role...
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"La Malaria," by Ernest Hébert, 1848
“La malaria,” the 1848 painting that made French painter Antoine-Auguste-Ernest Hébert famous. In it...
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DDT Spraying during National Malaria Eradication Program, 1958
Optimism about DDT's power to vanquish malaria reigned during the postwar years. At a 1950 World...
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Anopheles larvae
Anopheles larvae from a pond in Munich, Germany. By Steffen Dietzel, June 2007. commons.wikimedia.org/wik i/File:Anopheles_larve.jpg
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Giovanni Battista Grassi, 1891
The Italian zoologist Giovanni Grassi, who proved that Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria to...
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Ronald Ross, 1891
British army surgeon Ronald Ross discovered that mosquitoes transmitted malaria parasites to birds...
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Alphonse Laveran, 1901
Alphonse Laveran, the French army surgeon who first discovered the malaria parasite while stationed...
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The Fever, a slide show
