Hey liiz
Gather and process information..
This means that youll need to be doing more than simply 'identifying' (soz if going all BOSTES on you :p)
The main points of malaria: (soz its a bit long got carried away :p)
Around 2700 BC - several characteristic symptoms of malaria were described in the Nei Ching, Chinese medical writings. The Greece recognised it by 4 B.C. as the cause of the decline of many city populations. Hippocrates noted the principal symptoms.
Around 18 BC- Romans discovered malaria was common in marshy areas around Rome. The name
malaria is derived from the Italian for “bad air"Quechua healers of South American tribes in the Amazon used the bark of the Cinchona shrub to treat fevers and diseases
In the 1600s, this was observed by Spanish priests, who started using it to treat fevers associated with malaria. By 1649, the bark was available in England.
The active ingredient, quinine, was isolated in 1820 by Pierre Joseph Pelletier. Quinine is one of the most effective anti-malarial drugs today. In
1880, Charles Laveran, a French army doctor, observed the malarial parasite. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in 1907.
In 1886, Golgi observed asexual reproduction in the protozoan Plasmodium and identified two species.
In
1897, Ronald Ross discovered the malarial parasite in the stomach of an Anopheles mosquito. The parasite is the protozoa of the genus Plasmodium transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquito. In 1902, Ronald Ross won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this achievement.
In
1898, Giovanni Grassi named the Anopheles mosquito as the carrier of the malarial parasite.In
1934, Hans Andersag discovered chloroquinine, a synthetic drug. He named the compound resochin. Chloroquinine is an effective and safe antimalarial, though it was not recognised as such by British and American scientists until 1946.
In
1942, Paul Muller discovered the insecticide DDT. It was first used in Italy in 1944, and idea of global eradication of malaria seemed possible. Subsequently, widespread systematic control of the Anopheles mosquito has been used to interrupt its lifecycle, including the spraying of DDT, coating marshes with paraffin, using mosquito nets and draining stagnant water. However,
mosquito populations developed resistance to DDT, making DDT have minimal or no effect I feel like I have gone on for ages but the main points are in bold
Hope that has actually summarised rather than extended your notes!