The day provides education and information about malaria on a global scale.
Malaria was largely eradicated in the West due to DDT; eradication followed in many countries across the globe.
British doctor Ronald Ross proved that malaria is transmitted by mosquito. He won the Nobel Prize.
French scientists purified quinine from the cinchona bark and found it effective for malarial fevers.
Colonizers and missionaries used the cinchona tree bark to treat malaria.
Spanish invaders brought malaria to the Americas.
