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How malaria got its name|Origin of malaria|High fever|Malaria day

 Proclaimed the "king of diseases" in the Vedic texts (1500-800BC), a deadly fever was sometimes recorded in the ancient civilizations of China, Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and Greece. The Indian physician Sushruta (6th century BC) wrote vishama jwara "chronic fever", and "the father of medicine" Hippocrates (5th century BC) explained this condition. The most dangerous diversity is said to have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire in the 5th century. <a href='https://www.freepik.com/photos/mosquito-bite'>Mosquito bite photo created by jcomp - www.freepik.com</a> Such a rare disease, dating back to the 14th century, known in English as ague - mentioned in Shakespeare's eight plays - was borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Middle French ague, eventually to post-classical Latin acuta "acute fever". It was only in 1718 that the term "malaria" was coined, by Italian physician Francisco Torti - Italian mala + aria ...