HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Plasmodium Falciparum, Splenomegaly, Plasmodium Vivax
11 Sep 2013
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Said to kill half the ppl who ever live on planet and continues to kill till today. Number of cases estimated to be 300-500 million, with 10% outside of africa. Every 5 secs, mostly children under 5 in africa. Antiquity of malaria: in ebers papyrus [1570 bc] Greek physician, hippocrates discussed 2 kinds of malaria: One with recurrent fevers every third day [benign tertian] Another with fevers on the fourth day [quartan: noted that people living near marshes had enlarged spleens. Disease was so prevalent in marshland of roman campagna, called the roman fever". Believed that fever recurred during sickly summer season die to vapors emanating from marshes; called italian name of mal"aria =bad air. Spread across europe, in england by 14th and brought to new world by europeans explorers, colonists and slaves. 1880, charles louis laveran, french physician in algeria, examined drop of blood taken from a soldier with malaria fever under microscope.
