President’s Day is Monday. While celebrating your day off, remember the eight U.S. presidents that had malaria.

That’s right, a number of U.S. Presidents suffered from malaria before it was eradicated from the States in 1951. See below for a brief history of those we affectionately call The Plasmodium Presidents:

• President George Washington developed his first bout with malaria in 1749 at age 17?
• President James Monroe caught malaria while visiting a swampy area along the Mississippi in 1785?
• President Andrew Jackson is thought to have contracted malaria in Florida swamps during the Seminole campaigns of 1818-1821?
• President Abraham Lincoln had periodic bouts of malaria when growing up?
• President Ulysses S. Grant had malaria throughout the 1850′s?
• President James A. Garfield developed malaria in 1848 in Ohio at age 16?
• President Theodore Roosevelt acquired malaria during a visit to Brazil in 1914?
• President John F. Kennedy acquired malaria during World War II, about 1943?

Some of the content in this post was recycled from the past post, The Plasmodium Presidents.

Tags: Plasmodium Presidents, President's Day

Tags: Plasmodium Presidents, President's Day
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