Multiple choice

Who discovered that malaria is caused by a particular type of mosquito?

  1. Wilhem Roentgen

  2. Louis Pasteur

  3. Ronald Ross

  4. Henri Becquerel
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Explanation

Ronald Ross discovered in 1897 that malaria is transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes. He won the Nobel Prize in 1902 for this discovery. The other scientists listed made discoveries in different fields (X-rays, microbiology, radioactivity).

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