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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (18 June 1845 – 18 May 1922) was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis.
David Sullivan (born 5 February 1949) [1] is a British businessman and former pornographer. From 1986 to 2007, he owned the Daily Sport and Sunday Sport , which he sold for £40 million. [ 2 ]
David or Dave Sullivan may refer to: Dave Sullivan (boxer) (1877–1929), Irish-American boxer; David Sullivan (labor leader) (1904–1976), American labor leader; David O. Sullivan (c. 1924–2012), American intelligence officer; David Sullivan (businessman) (born 1949), British pornographic magazine publisher and football club owner
It lists activities tackling tuberculosis, malaria, acute risks of maternal and child mortality, including severe acute malnutrition, and other life-threatening diseases and health conditions.
ʻIʻiwi are listed as a threatened species because of small and declining populations in some of its range and its susceptibility to fowlpox and avian malaria. Avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) is an introduced disease that is spread by mosquitoes. ʻIʻiwi generally survive at higher elevations where temperatures are too cool for mosquitoes.
As a result of their research, which began January 1941 at USDA, Goodhue, of Berwyn, Maryland, [13] and William N. Sullivan, of Washington, D.C., received a patent in 1943 for an aerosol "dispensing apparatus". [14] This was the first commercially feasible application which allowed a fine spray to escape through a nozzle mounted on a small ...
Malaria researchers have won multiple Nobel Prizes for their achievements, although the disease continues to afflict some 200 million patients each year, killing more than 600,000. Malaria was the most important health hazard encountered by U.S. troops in the South Pacific during World War II, where about 500,000 men were infected. [6]
In 1985 he became the director of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and also served, until 1992, as the head of malaria studies at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD). [1] He held both positions until 2002 when he suffered from pancreatic cancer. [4]