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Sir Ronald RossANDY BACHUS
Ronald Ross Timeline
May 1857: Born in Almora, India
1865: Sent to England for his education
1874-1879: Attended medical school in England
1881: Entered Indian Medical Service
1888-1889: Studied Bacteriology in England while on leave from the Indian Medical Service
1895: Began study looking into whether mosquitoes were linked to spread of Malaria
August 1897: Determined that Malaria transmitted to humans by Anopheles mosquitoes
Ronald Ross Timeline
1899: Began working for Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
1902: Awarded Nobel Prize for work with Malaria
1911: Received Knighthood by Great Britain
1914-1918: Worked in Mediterranean area to study how Malaria and other tropical diseases affected areas during First World War
1926: Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases opened in London, which was dedicated to Ross
September 1932: Died at the age of 75 in London
Early Life and Education
Born May 13, 1857 to C.C.G. and Matilda Ross in Almora, India
While still a child, sent to Isle of Wight in England for his education
Highly interested in literature and math, not as interested in science
Applied for and began medical studies at seventeen at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College Did not want to be doctor or study sciences, applied to medical
school for his father
Became a doctor in 1879 and went into the Indian Medical Service in 1881 Through service, tended to patients around the world in places like
Burma, Andaman Islands
Interest in Bacteriology and Diseases
While on a break from working for the Indian Medical Service in 1888, decided to study Public Health in England Studied at Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians
Took a bacteriology course which sparked his interest in studying diseases
While on leave in 1894, he first worked with the study of Malaria and how it is transmitted Learned from Sir Patrick Manson that Malaria parasites could travel
through blood
What is Malaria?
Sometimes-fatal parasitic disease transmitted by Anopheles mosquitoes Symptoms of uncomplicated Malaria are flu-like, which include fever,
chills, body aches, and nausea
Severe Malaria can occur when it is not treated Symptoms can include seizures, anemia, kidney failure, and coma
which can lead to death
Malaria was eradicated from the U.S. in the 1950s but still occurs throughout the world Malaria very widespread through Central Africa, India, and part of
South America
Cycle of Malaria
Working with Malaria
Returned to India in 1895 working to prove that Malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes Idea already hypothesized by Alphonse Laveran, Patrick Manson
Discovered that Anopheles mosquitoes could carry Malaria in blood in August 1897 Fed mosquitoes with blood from a Malaria patient for four days
Work published in British Medical Journal in December 1897
Research remarkable since he came to this conclusion through only studying a small amount of mosquitoes
Continued Malaria research by showing parasite could be transmitted from mosquitoes to birds in July 1898
Life After Malaria Research
Began working for Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in 1899 While at the school, traveled to Southern Europe, Central America, and
Western Africa to develop ways to control Malaria
Awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work with Malaria in 1902 Alphonse Laveran awarded same Nobel Prize in 1907 for his original
hypothesis
Received Knighthood in England in 1911
Studied control of Malaria again during the first World War Traveled to areas were war was fought to research spread of Malaria
Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases opened in London in 1926
Ross died after battling a “long illness” in 1932
Ronald Ross’s Legacy
Discovery that Anopheles mosquito could carry Malaria led to better understanding, control of disease
Control of Malaria in first-world countries United States free of Malaria in 1950s
Work led to finding better treatments and prevention methods for malaria
Work still continues today to completely eradicate Malaria from third-world countries
Sources
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/510100/Sir-Ronald-Ross
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/ross.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636258/
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1902/ross-bio.html
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/index.html