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1740 - H. Walpole first used "mal'aria" (Italian: bad air) to describe the disease

20th century - shortened to "malaria"

1880 - C. Laveran first identified the parasite in human blood

1889 - R. Ross discovered that mosquitoes transmitted malaria

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