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CRESIB collaborates with the MALARIA exhibition which opened last 14 October in Barcelona.

The Malaria Exhibition, a chronological journey illustrating the intense battle throughout history against this illness, in which Spain plays a prominent role, opened on October 14th in Barcelona (Espai Cultural de Caja Madrid, Pl. Catalunya 9).

The exhibition is organized by the National Spanish Library with the collaboration of CRESIB, the Cruz Roja Española and the Obra Social Caja Madrid.

The Malaria Exhibition pursues three important targets: to capture public attention and highlight the global importance of this illness; to show the public that malaria was present in countries with temperate climates, as were the methods used to fight it; and how, in some countries, malaria was overcome.

The exhibition is organized in chronological order: taking us from the first Hippocratic theories, to recent times, passing through some fundamental historical landmarks: the first concepts of “intermittent fevers” and its treatment; to the use of quine and the isolation of quinine; the discovery of the parasite/vector agents that cause the illness and its vital cycles; the strategies of the battle since the beginning of the 20th century; the anti malaria campaigns undertaken in Spain; and the evolution of the illness in recent times.
 
With this exhibition we aim to increase public awareness of the importance of malaria as a health problem that affects millions of people and causes 1.5 to 2.7 million deaths each year. As biomedical research is a key tool to fight malaria, a laboratory, similar to CRESIB's one based at the Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, has been re-created in the exhibition, with similar equipment and materials. There will be also a video demonstrating one of the procedures that carry on with malaria blood samples.

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