Alphonse Laveran Physician

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907

Physician. "protozoa cause diseases." Malarial parasite discovery received with skepticism. Sleeping sickness. Trypanosomes in different animals, countries. 1914-1918 concern: troops’ health.

“After vain attempt to detect parasite in air, water, soil; cultivate in varied media, I became convinced: microbe was already present outside human body as parasite, probably of mosquitoes.”

History of Malaria

History of Malaria, an Ancient Disease

• The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) and Malaria (1914-1942)
• The U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) – The Integration of Malaria Control with Economic Development (1933)Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) (1942-1945)
• CDC and Malaria (1946-present)
• CDC's Origins and Malaria
• Elimination of Malaria in the United States (1947-1951)
• Eradication Efforts Worldwide: Success and Failure (1955-1978)

Fighting the World’s Deadliest Animal