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“This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save. O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave? Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.”

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Ronald Ross was a British medical doctor renowned for his contributions to the study of malaria. In 1881, he discovered the life cycle of the malaria parasite in mosquitoes, which laid the foundation for the prevention and treatment of the disease. more

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