مرض الملاريا وتأسيس معهد باستور في الجزائر

Abstract EN

At the beginning of the French occupation, Algeria witnessed the outbreak of diseases and epidemics among French soldiers, including what they transferred from France to Algeria, such as tuberculosis and cholera, and what they contracted due to their lack of adaptation to natural conditions, such as malaria.

the article aims to show the circumstances of the discovery of malaria in Algeria by a doctor in the French occupation army called Alphonse Laveran in 1880, and to deepen research and therapeutic experiences by establishing the Pasteur institute of Algeria by the French doctor and researcher jean batiste Paulin Trolar in 1894 which was the second institute established outside France after the Saigon institute in Indochina in 1891.

after its founding in 1894, the institute Pasteur accompanied the French army in all its expansionist campaigns in Algeria, and to ensure the health and safety of French soldiers, its first officials decided to establish mobile laboratories, which after the failure of the armed popular resistance turned into secondary laboratories, widespread especially in the areas of the high plains and the desert, thus, Algeria has been transformed by its ecological diversity into a destination for researchers who have described it as an open-air laboratory.