Multiple choice general knowledge

Who discovered the cause of malaria?

  1. Neils Bohr

  2. Archimedes

  3. Ronald Ross

  4. Edward Jenner
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Explanation

Ronald Ross, a British medical doctor, discovered in 1897 that malaria is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes. His work in India proved that the malaria parasite (Plasmodium) completes part of its life cycle in mosquitoes and is transmitted to humans through mosquito bites, earning him the 1902 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

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