Consider the following statements regarding Malaria Parasite?

1. Malaria parasite was first discovered in Uganda French physicia.

2. Malaria disease is transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Aedes mosquitoe. 

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Malaria parasite was first discovered in Algeria by French physician Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran in 1880. By the 1960s, the disease became the country’s primary health challenge, with an estimated 80,000 cases reported each year.

Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoe

By: Vishal