World Mosquito Day: The Discovery of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

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Getty Images Getty Images via BBC It was in British style. On August 20, 1931, the team of the Ross Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, in London, decided to offer a tea in honor of the founder of the organization, physician and scientist Ronald Ross (1857-1932). The date was not random. And since then, it has been instituted August 20 as World Mosquito Day. All because of Ross's main scientific discovery. In his memoirs, he wrote abou…