Malaria has infected human for over 50,000 years & may have been a human pathogen for the entire history of human being. The references of malaria were found throughout the history of human life, beginning in 2700 BC in China during Xia Dynasty. Scientific studies on malaria made their first significance in 1880 when a French Army Doctor working in Algeria (Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran) observed parasite inside red blood cell of people suffering from malaria. He then proposed that the cause of the disease is protozoa, the first time protozoa were identified as causing disease. He got Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1907.
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