Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922) (sometimes spelled Alfons or Alfonse), Frenchphysician who discovered that the cause of malaria is a protozoan, the first time that protozoa were shown to be a cause of disease. For this work and later discoveries of protozoan diseases he was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
... km² (8.5 mi²) of it is land and 2.0 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 8.24% water.
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