Malaria

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Malaria is one of the world's most common diseases, caused by a parasite that is transmitted to humans by a female mosquito's bite.
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The Nobel Prize

The 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of the parasite causing malaria and the 1907 Nobel Prize for finding the parasite in human blood.

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