Ronald Ross Facts
Ronald Ross Facts
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| Ronald Ross was born in Almora, India, and was the son of a general in the British Indian Army. |
| He was the oldest of ten children and was sent to England to study at the age of eight. |
| In 1875 Ronald Ross entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in London. |
| He passed the exams for the Royal College of Surgeons in 1879. |
| In 1881 he joined the Indian Medical Service. |
| He was fascinated with how malaria spread and spent years researching the topic. |
| In 1897 he proved that mosquitoes are the vector for the spread of malaria by isolating a plasmodium from the gut of an Anopheles mosquito. |
| He also researched avian malaria and in July of 1898 isolated plasmodium from the salivary gland of the Culex. |
| He was able to transmit the disease to healthy birds from infected ones to prove that the plasmodium was the causative agent of the disease. |
| In 1899 he joined the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and was sent to West Africa to continue his study of malaria. |
| He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1901. |
| In 1902 he was became Companion of the Most Honourable Order of Bath in recognition of his achievements. |
| From 1902 to 1912 he held the Sir Alfred Jones Chair of Tropical Medicine. |
| He traveled to many countries where malaria was endemic and initiated control efforts, including in West Africa, the Suez Canal, Greece, Mauritius, and Cyprus. |
| He studied malaria in areas affected by World War I. |
| In 1908 he published a mathematical model for the epidemiology of malaria which he considered to be his greatest contribution. |
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