人类疟疾的病原体是疟原虫。疟原虫原本是林栖兽类的寄生虫,随着大陆的变迁,人类的活动,疟原虫才逐渐地扩散到人群中来,引起人类疟疾,严重地威胁着人类的生命,至今,全世界每年看成千上万的人死于疟疾。就目前所知人类疟原虫只有四种,其传播媒介仅限于按蚊属。本文以年表的形式 The pathogen of human malaria is Plasmodium. Plasmodium was originally a parasite of the beasts of the lush habitat. With the change of the mainland and the human activities, the parasite gradually spread into the crowd, causing human malaria and seriously threatening the human life. So far, the world annually Millions of people die of malaria. As far as is known, there are only four kinds of human Plasmodium, and their vectors are limited to Anopheles. This article is in chronological form