An important discovery was made by Patrick Manson in 1877 that mosquito could transmit human filarial parasite.[5] Inferring from such novel discovery Albert Freeman Africanus King proposed the hypothesis that mosquitoes were the source of malaria.[6] In the early 1890s Manson himself began to formulate the complete hypothesis, which he eventually called the mosquito-malaria theory. According to Manson malaria was transmitted from human to human by a mosquito.[7][8] The theory was scientifically proved by Manson's confidant Ronald Ross in the late 1890s. Ross discovered that malaria was transmitted by the biting of specific species of mosquito.[9] For this Ross won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902.[10] Further experimental proof was provided by Manson who induced malaria in healthy human subjects from malaria-carrying mosquitoes.[8] Thus the theory became the foundation of malariology and the strategy of control of malaria.[11][12]