1. Malaria Facts Where malaria is common the average life span is 30 YOA. This is not all due to malaria but malaria and trypanosomiasis do play their part!

2. Malaria Facts Where malaria is common the average life span is 30 YOA. This is not all due to malaria but malaria and trypanosomiasis do play their part! Malaria has protected Western Africa from European colonization!

3. Malaria has Been Significant Enough to Make the World Different! Being sent to Gambia, Serra Leon, etc. was considered a death sentence because of the probability of contracting malaria!

4. Malaria has Been Significant Enough to Make the World Different! Being sent to Gambia, Serra Leon, etc. was considered a death sentence because of the probability of contracting malaria! 1880 was when Plasmodium was fist discovered.

5. Malaria has Been Significant Enough to Make the World Different! Being sent to Gambia, Serra Leon, etc. was considered a death sentence because of the probability of contracting malaria! 1880 was when Plasmodium was fist discovered. 1897: the vector host was discovered by Ronald Ross. But it did not matter since there was no attempt to control it!

6. Malaria in History Ancient references –China, Assyria, India –500 BC Hippocrates gives first clinical description

7. Malaria in History Ancient references –China, Assyria, India –500 BC Hippocrates gives first clinical description Historical Impacts –413 BC Fall of Greek empire –323 BC Alexander the Great died of malaria –The Roman Empire: Malaria is generally considered to have played a role in the decline of Rome, a city located in marshland, where malaria is transmitted

8. History 1800’s 20-40% of people hospitalized in New Orleans had malaria

9. History 1800’s 20-40% of people hospitalized in New Orleans had malaria 1861-1865 Civil War. Savannah, GA 878 men had 3313 cases of malaria in a 14 month period.

10. History 1800’s 20-40% of people hospitalized in New Orleans had malaria 1861-1865 Civil War. Savannah, GA 878 men had 3313 cases of malaria in a 14 month period. 1880 Plasmodium discovered as etiological agent

11. History 1800’s 20-40% of people hospitalized in New Orleans had malaria 1861-1865 Civil War. Savannah, GA 878 men had 3313 cases of malaria in a 14 month period. 1880 Plasmodium discovered as etiological agent 1900’s Sir Ronald Ross discovers mosquitoes are vectors

12. History 1800’s 20-40% of people hospitalized in New Orleans had malaria 1861-1865 Civil War. Savannah, GA 878 men had 3313 cases of malaria in a 14 month period. 1880 Plasmodium discovered as etiological agent 1900’s Sir Ronald Ross discovers mosquitoes are vectors 1930’s malaria diminished in U.S. except for southeast. Conversion of swamp to agriculture.

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16. World War II. In 1942, 2678 cases from 1,000 men; Ran out of drug for treatment. History

17. Gen. Douglas MacArthur in May 1943: "Doctor," he said, "this will be a long war if for every division I have facing the enemy I must count on a second division in hospital with malaria and a third division convalescing from this debilitating disease!" The general was not at all worried about defeating the Japanese, but he was greatly concerned about the failure up to that time to defeat the Anopheles mosquito. History

18. Lost five times more men to malaria than in Battle!

19. History Lost five times more men to malaria than in Battle! Brought about chemical insecticides. –DDT was a result of WWII –And a few year later there were only 50/1000

20. History Lost five times more men to malaria than in Battle! Brought about chemical insecticides. –DDT was a result of WWII –And a few year later there were only 50/1000 So after the war there was a false hope of eradicating malaria from the world!

21. 1946. WHO initiates program to “eradicate malaria”. History

22. 1946. WHO initiates program to “eradicate malaria”. 1961: A parasitology textbook is quoted as saying “with present prospects, malaria WILL soon be treated as an uncommon/non-existent disease. History

23. 1946. WHO initiates program to “eradicate malaria”. 1961: A parasitology textbook is quoted as saying “with present prospects, malaria WILL soon be treated as an uncommon/non-existent disease. 1970. Malaria decreased dramatically. History

24. Eradication of Malaria So why did the campaign fail? 1) Insecticides (DDT) –Environmental damage!