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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