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Babesiosis was originally reported by the Romanian scientist, Victor Babes, in 1888. The disease was investigated for its renown infection in domesticated animals and cattle. In 1957, the first human babesiosis infection was documented in a splenectomized, Yugoslavian patient. All patients observed with babesiosis had also undergone a splenectomy, it wasn't until 1969 that the infection was observed within a normal patient.