malaria timeline

silvermoon · 6 Sep 2004, 6:15 AM

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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_ · 6 Sep 2004, 6:18 AM

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 · 27 Apr 2005, 8:21 PM

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 · 17 Jul 2006, 12:54 PM

I just googled it and got these sites:

http://www.museums.org.za/bio/apicom...of_malaria.htm
http://www.rds-online.org.uk/pages/p...=3&i_PageID=37
http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dyn...2FHistory.html

They look pretty useful.

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babydoll_ wat HSC: N/A Gender: Undisclosed Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,607 Last Activity: 28 Oct 2009, 10:28 AM	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. __________________

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roseangel Take the Money and Run HSC: 2004 Gender: Female Location: Gumdrop House, Lollypop Lane Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 28 Last Activity: 31 Oct 2006, 3:36 PM	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 __________________ Arts in Communication (Journalism) at UTS UAI: 97.6 Wish upon a star, but do you know what stars are? Balls of fire burning up the black space falling from the landscape exploding in the face of God

17 Jul 2006, 12:54 PM	#4 (permalink)
Dr_Doom Supreme Member HSC: 2006 Gender: Male Location: NSW Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,276 Last Activity: 25 Aug 2009, 4:56 PM	Re: malaria timeline I just googled it and got these sites: http://www.museums.org.za/bio/apicom...of_malaria.htm http://www.rds-online.org.uk/pages/p...=3&i_PageID=37 http://history1900s.about.com/gi/dyn...2FHistory.html They look pretty useful.

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