Developed India Fulfils the Vision of a Healthy India: ICMR

  • In 1897, Surgeon Major Ronald Ross, while working in Hyderabad-Secunderabad, demonstrated that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria.
  • For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1902.
  • In 1899, Haffkine developed a preventive vaccine against plague.
  • In 1903, Charles Donovan discovered the parasite responsible for kala-azar.
  • The foundation for organized health research began in 1900 with the establishment of the Bacteriological Department of India.
  • In 1918, a Nutrition Research Laboratory was established in Coonoor.
  • The National Institute of Virology (NIV), founded in 1951, made significant contributions from discovering the Kyasanur Forest Disease (Monkey Fever) in Shimoga, Karnataka, to developing a vaccine for it.
  • The whole virion ....
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