Malaria Through Time
In this year, Florida was declared malaria-free.
What is 1949?
Malaria is transmitted to humans through the bite of this type of animal.
What is a mosquito?
In 1880, the first malaria parasite was discovered in this African country.
What is Algeria?
The word “malaria” comes from Italian words meaning this.
What is “bad air”?
Malaria has this threat level on the DVEC Virus Identifier.
What is High?
Ancient clay tablets from this region described periodic deadly fevers as early as 3100 BCE.
What is Mesopotamia?
Malaria is carried by mosquitoes belonging to this genus.
What is Anopheles?
This French army doctor discovered the malaria parasite in 1880.
Who is Charles Laveran?
These are the two especially important malaria parasites highlighted in the exhibit.
What are Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax?
Florida was declared malaria-free in 1949, but that status lasted until this year.
What is 2003?
This famous playwright mentioned “ague,” an old English name for malaria, in at least eight of his plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Mosquitoes can transmit this parasite to dogs, where adult worms can live in the heart and nearby blood vessels.
What is dog heartworm?
This medicine, derived from the bark of the cinchona tree, became an important tool for preventing and treating malaria.
What is quinine?
Approximately this many species of Plasmodium cause malaria in humans.
What are 4–5 species?
Florida recorded its last death from this mosquito-borne disease in 1905, decades before the state was declared malaria-free.
What is yellow fever?
During this war, malaria severely weakened British troops fighting the American colonists.
What is the American Revolutionary War?
Only this mosquito takes a blood meal, which provides nutrients needed for egg development.
What are female mosquitoes?
This Italian researcher and his team also demonstrated mosquitoes' role in malaria transmission around the same period as Ronald Ross.
Who is Giovanni Battista Grassi?
Malaria is caused by this type of organism, rather than a virus or bacterium.
What is a parasite?
Mosquito-borne disease infection rates are kept low in Florida in part through these organized programs.
What are mosquito control programs?
In 1717, this Italian scientist theorized that something associated with swamps, possibly mosquitoes, transmitted malaria.
Who is Giovanni Lancici?
Unlike the other 3,000+ species of mosquitoes, mosquitoes in this genus never take a blood meal, even as adult females, and their larvae are predators of other mosquito larvae. (We will also take the common name as the answer)
What is Toxorhynchites (The Elephant Mosquito)?
This scientist made the pivotal 1897 discovery of malaria parasites inside a mosquito.
Who is Ronald Ross?
In 1897, malaria parasites were discovered inside this part of a mosquito, helping prove mosquitoes transmitted malaria.
What is the gastrointestinal/intestinal tract?
Florida Health Circular No. 1 emphasized mosquitoes' role in transmitting malaria in this year.
What is 1903?