Sir Ronald Ross ANDY BACHUS. Ronald Ross Timeline May 1857: Born in Almora, India 1865: Sent to England for his education 1874-1879: Attended medical.

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