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|| HOME|| CAUSE || EFFECTS || TREATMENT || PREVENTION || CHOICE || NOTES || MLA || Mosquito facts there are about 2700 different species of these pesky bugs The average mosquito wighs 3 to 2.5 milligrams Male mosquitoes don't suck blood- only females do it An average female mosquito drinks five millionths of a liter 

6000BC First written reference to deadly fevers thought to malaria

500BC Greek physician Hippocrates describes cyclical nature of malaria fevers and associates the disease with swamp water

1500s Malaria comes to America from infected European colonists and African slaves

1630s Jesuit missionaries in Peru learn from native people about the anti- malarial properties of the cinchona tree and introduce quinine a powder made from the tree’s bark to Europe and Asia.

1717 Italian doctor Giovanni Maria Lancisi blames malaria on poisonous vapors released by swamp water

1880 First true sighting of the malaria parasite by the French doctor Alphse Laveran 

Q: Who is Giovanni Maria Lancisi? explain what she did.