What is the contribution of Ronald Ross?

Answer 1

Ronald Ross discovered the life cycle of malarial parasite in mosquito.malaria was a lethal disease and discovery of the life cycle in mosquitoes made it possible to control Malaria by controlling mosquitoes.

(born May 13, 1857, Almora, India - died Sept. 16, 1932, Putney Heath, London, Eng.) British bacteriologist. After earning a medical degree, he entered the Indian Medical Service and served in the third Anglo-Burmese War (1885). He studied bacteriology in London, then returned to India, where he discovered the plasmodium parasite (cause of malaria) in the gastrointestinal tract of the Anopheles mosquito in 1897. He used infected and healthy birds to learn its entire life cycle, including its presence in the mosquito's salivary glands, showing how it is transmitted by a bite. He received a 1902 Nobel Prize.

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