Important Days

World Mosquito Day – August 20

August 22 , 2026 1 hrs 0 min 5 0

The day aims to raise awareness about mosquito-borne diseases and their prevention.
The day commemorates Sir Ronald Ross, who in 1897 discovered that female Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria parasites to humans.
Sir Ronald Ross was a British-Indian physician and scientist who was born in 1857 in Almora, India.
He received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate in medicine.
Major mosquito-borne diseases include malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Japanese encephalitis and Zika virus disease.
Malaria is mainly transmitted by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes, while dengue and chikungunya are mainly spread by Aedes mosquitoes.