Question

Do you know, who has discovered Malaria parasite and its treatment?

Answer 1

Malaria is caused by a parasite named plasmodium vivax.

Plasmodium vivax was first discovered in 1890 by Grassi and Faletty. 

This parasite is carried by female mosquitoes only as it needs more proteins for the eggs development.

Answer 2

Scientist Ronald Ross discovered the parasites of  Malaria and it's treatment.He researched about it in 

SSKM HOSPITAL(now IPGME&R) in west bengal,India.

Answer 3

Youyou Tu of China, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, is “one of the greatest examples of the century” of the translation of scientific discovery, according to malaria expert Dyann Wirth of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.