Anopheles mosquito
This disease once obstructed the advance of Thanh Cat Tu Han , the king of the mighty Hungarian empire under the Mongol and Attila empires. It also infects many famous US presidents such as George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and John F Kennedy.
Even Alexander the Great and Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun had to die because of the disease.
Between 1900 and 1950, malaria estimates killed 100 million people. In 1946, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was established in the US primarily to prevent the disease.
The video below will help you better understand the dangers of this dreaded disease.