AGUE, tertian fever, quartan fever, paludism.Malaria has been known about since ancient times and has gone under many names.Today, it kills over a million people a year, most of them young children.

• 人们自古就发现了疟疾并赋予其许多称呼，瘴气，间日热，三日热，痎疟.；如今每年死于疟疾之人超过100万，其中大部分是孩童。