Medicine & Surgery
Malaria transmission by mosquitoes
1897Ronald Ross (Secunderabad)Experiments in IndiaPan-Indian / unspecified
1897
Showed that malaria parasites are carried by Anopheles mosquitoes.
- Dated
- 1897
- As scholars put it
- 1897
- Originator
- Ronald Ross (Secunderabad)
- Source text
- Experiments in India
- Region
- Pan-Indian / unspecified
- Discipline
- Medicine & Surgery
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Fair to say
Discovered in India by a British officer; Indian assistants contributed but are rarely named.
Path to modern innovation
Foundation of malaria control.
Transmission
Nobel Prize 1902.
References
- 1Ross, BMJ (1897)
Further reading
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