Are We Close To Ending Malaria?
How Are Humans So Adept At Survival? http://testu.be/1RUv0eb Which Countries Live The Longest? http://testu.be/1OJmAbO Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml In 2013, malaria killed nearly...
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One of the deadliest diseases on earth may finally be coming to an end, thanks to research by this year’s Nobel Prize winners. The 2015 award in Physiology or Medicine went to three scientists working on eradicating the disease, malaria. Malaria is thought to be responsible for killing half of all humans who have ever lived, and yet around the world rates of infection have been steadily dropping. So we wanted to know: is this the end of malaria? Well, malaria is a parasitically transmitted illness. It relies on disease-carrying parasites, which are transmitted by one type of female mosquito, called Anopheles. That’s Greek for “useless”. But despite their name, these insects kill about 600,000 people a year, or about the entire death toll of the Civil War....
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One of the deadliest diseases on earth may finally be coming to an end, thanks to research by this year’s Nobel Prize winners. The 2015 award in Physiology or Medicine went to three scientists working on eradicating the disease, malaria. Malaria is thought to be responsible for killing half of all humans who have ever lived, and yet around the world rates of infection have been steadily dropping. So we wanted to know: is this the end of malaria? Well, malaria is a parasitically transmitted illness. It relies on disease-carrying parasites, which are transmitted by one type of female mosquito, called Anopheles. That’s Greek for “useless”. But despite their name, these insects kill about 600,000 people a year, or about the entire death toll of the Civil War....
