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Plasmodium vivax, malaria parasite

Mosquito: malaria vector

Anopheles mosquito

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Plasmodium vivax, malaria parasite

Mosquito: malaria vector

Anopheles mosquito

World Health Organization

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William Crawford Gorgas.

William Crawford Gorgas

United States Army surgeon

Tu Youyou

Tu Youyou

Chinese scientist and phytochemist

Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Ronald Ross

British doctor

Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist

Giovanni Maria Lancisi

Italian physician

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Alphonse Laveran

French physician and pathologist

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