Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army medical doctor, was given Nobel prize in 1907 for having described how protozoans caused malaria. This is a text the scientist wrote about his discovery and was published in his necrology in 1922:
"I had the opportunity to autopsy people dead by "pernicious fever" and study the melanemia, let's say the formation of black pigment in the sick's blood, that had been described by various observers, but without linking it with malaria."
Apart the fact melanemia isn't a French word, of course, the Nobel Prize didn't cited the earlier observers. Not much had observed such a thing. Principally Collumela, a Roman doctor that described "Roman fever" (not yet called malaria) 1cAC. It would have been recognizing malaria came from Rome, and not from Africa, as Laveran pretended.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Columella
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248506.001.0001/acprof-9780199248506
https://www.historiadelamedicina.org/laveran.html
Please permit me to insert at first 2 short overviews of the general history of malaria:
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_malaria.
To me it is so strange a disease with an Italian name doesn't come from Italia. Disease names are like plants names: they are supposed to tell it all in only one word. That's why generations of scientists that had to shut up managed to speak out through disease's names (or keywords). But we can come to an elegant compromise: malaria is born and relies on human civilization, on human settlement. So, it is not an "African" disease, as Nobel prize Laveran pretended.
Leonardo Bruni (1369 - 1444) introduced the word mal´aria (bad air) and and referred to the miasmatic theory.
The "feverish disease" is far older and mentioned in many manuscripts; e.g. from China and India. More than 2000 years ago, there was the first mention in a manuscript found in the Ma Wang Dui-tombs ( Wu Shi Er Bing Fang„Recipes for 52 diseases" 169 BC; Han dynasty) of quing hao su (青蒿), which is Artemisinin, the substance tody the number 1 treatment (in combination with another substance).
Malaria has its origin in Africa
0,5 billion years ago: precursors of today´s plasmodia
175 million years ago: First Dipterae (precursors of mosquitoes)
130 million years ago: Two-host cycle (mosquitoes - vertebrates) Separation of avian and mammalian plasmodia
100 million years ago: Origin of the species Plasmodium malariae, P. vivax, P. ovale
5 million years ago: Origin of the species P. falciparum
appr. 8000 years ago: Lethal P. falciparum strains
appr. 5000 years ago: Anthropophily of anophelines
> 10 000 years ago: Malaria in Africa
7500 years ago: Mesopotamia, India, SE-Asia
5000 years ago: China
3000 years ago: P. falciparum reaches India
2000 years ago: Malaria in the mediterranean region
750 years ago: in Northern Europe
500 years ago: in the „New World“
250 years ago: in large parts of North America
19. century: Global spread of malaria
End of 1950 years: Disappearance of malaria from North America and most parts of Europe
What I wonder about is >10.000 ago malaria in Africa (what are the sources?) If it jumped directly from Africa to Mesopotamia, do you mean it followed homo sapiens' path? My opinion is malaria was present in the northern part of Mediterraneo, not in Mediterrean countries not colonized by Roma, such as Numidia. The best proof is when it came, directly from Italy to Algiers end of 17thc, the Roman malaria strain killed in Algeria almost 60% of the adult population, because they had no immunity. In change, in the French, that colonized Algeria by that time, already exposed since time to the Roman malaria strain, the death toll wasn't that high.
Just some examples:
Eikenberry SE, Gumel AB.J Math Biol. 2018 Oct;77(4):857-933.Mathematical modeling of climate change and malaria transmission dynamics: a historical review.
Joy DA1, Feng X, Mu J, Furuya T, Chotivanich K, Krettli AU, Ho M, Wang A, White NJ, Suh E, Beerli P, Su XZ. Science. 2003 Apr 11;300(5617):318-21. Early origin and recent expansion of Plasmodium falciparum.
Hartl DL. The origin of malaria: mixed messages from genetic diversity. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2004 Jan;2(1):15-22. Review.
Kindly see the following RG links.
Chapter History of Malaria
Chapter Learning from history
Article Study on the natural history of malaria in areas of the Rond...
Article Migration and Malaria in Europe
Article The Spread of Malaria to Southern Europe in Antiquity: New A...
Article History of the discovery of the malaria parasites and their vectors
I think mainstream considerations and propaganda are poisoning the historical facts so it fits their colonial theory: Africa infecting the rest of the world, when facts shows it happened exactly the opposite way: Malaria was born in Rome and then intentionally contaminated to Algeria in 17th C, as the high mortality rates indicates (killing almost 60% of adult population).
I now withdraw from this useless and non-scientific discussion. What you say is not supported at all by any facts. It is just nonsense - sorry.
Maybe try oxford literature http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199248506.001.0001/acprof-9780199248506
or research gate Article The Roman fever: observations on the understanding of malari...
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