After Quote by Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

Early in my career, I was galvanized by a disease that ravaged my country and many others around the world: malaria.

— Tedros Adhanom

“In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient…

— Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

“Where else was I to go? My family had no desire to apprentice me to a physician, for though the admission grieves me, over…

— Noah Gordon

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it

— Anonymous

I had the opportunity of making necropsies on patients dead from malignant fever and of studying the melanaemia, i.e., the formation of black pigment…

— Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of…

— George Sarton

I speak often about my personal experiences with malaria in the field as a young public health officer because it had such a profound…

— Tedros Adhanom

I contracted malaria while working in the field. That was the impetus for me to pursue a doctorate in community health. As a young…

— Tedros Adhanom

“The fever” was (as it usually is in Manchester) of a low, putrid, typhoid kind; brought on by miserable living, filthy neighbourhood, and great…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My…

— Tedros Adhanom

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were…

— Richard Carmona