More historical facts on Malaria

The protozoa were called Plasmodium by the Italian scientist Ettore Marchiafava and Angelo Celli. A Cuban doctor called Carlos Finlay, who was working in Havana, first proposed that the disease was transmitted by mosquitoes. But it was Sir Ronald Ross, a British doctor working in Kolkata, India proved that it was indeed transmitted by mosquitoes. He showed that mosquitoes are transmitting malaria to birds also isolated the protozoa from the salivary glands of mosquitoes that fed on infected birds. He received Nobel Prize for this in 1902.