John Snow was born in 1813 in England and studied to become a surgeon and physician. In 1855, a cholera outbreak occurred in London and Snow studied what was happening. He discovered that the people who had died were drinking water from the same source. Before this, no one knew how the illness spread. The results of Snow's study were important because they explained how the illness spread and helped establish public health science. Researchers in Kenya found that a certain fish that is normally eaten could help reduce malaria. The fish eats mosquito larvae, which are young mosquitoes before they grow wings. People have known for a long time that this fish eats mosquitoes, but this was the first time researchers looked at how the