British army helped eradication of malaria?

In 1897, a British army doctor named Ronald Ross made an incredible discovery related to malaria. When he was in Secunderabad, India he dissected and examined the stomach of many mosquitoes. After the examinations, he got to know the relation between mosquitoes and malaria. He observed that mosquitoes who feed on malaria-patients had pigmented cysts on their wings. This came as proper evidence that mosquitoes and malaria were somehow connected.

Malaria is a deadly disease that transfers from person-to-person through anopheles mosquitoes. It can be mild, chronic or fatal. It has symptoms like high fever, headache and body pain. In some sever cases Chronic Anemia which results in coma. If chronic malaria is not treated, it has death rate of 10-40% or even higher.If pregnant women are diagnosed with malaria, they give birth to malnourished babies in which some babies even die.

But due to Ronald Ross’s discovery, the eradication of malaria became possible. In 1902, Ross was awarded with a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. On 20^th August 1897, i.e. that day he made the discovery on is celebrated as Mosquito Day.