Alphonse Laveran Physician
Alphonse Laveran Physician
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907
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Name: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Birth: 18 June 1845, Paris, France
Death: 18 May 1922, Paris, France
Affiliation: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Award: “in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases.”
Portion of Cash: 1/1
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.”
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Books
History of Malaria
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)