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A micrograph with a large dark purple cell in the center with smaller circular cells and a marbled pinkish space surrounding them.
Micrograph of a malaria parasite liver infection. (Photo: Dr. Mae Melvin, USCDCP)

Malaria begins to move across the globe.

3000s BCE

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Micrograph of a malaria parasite liver infection. (Photo: Dr. Mae Melvin, USCDCP)

By the 16th century, malaria will be found in every climate. Over the next 4,500 years, countless treatments and understandings of the disease will proliferate in song, written texts, and receipt books.