Mission 4 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What is a vector? | an organism that transmits a disease |
Malaria is common in areas of the world with what type of climate? | Hot and tropical |
Which mosquito species transmits malaria? | Anopheles |
Which main symptoms are associated with malaria? | Recurring fever and anemia |
In how many countries is malaria endemic today? | 100 |
Approximately how many people die each year from malaria? | 1 million |
Which age group is most likely to die from malaria? | children under 5 |
The first scientist to discover the organism that causes malaria was: | Alphonse Laveran |
Who was the first to discover that an insect, the mosquito, can carry a parasite that causes a human disease? | Patrick Manson |
Laveran’s bodies are what? | malaria parasites |
Ronald Ross is important in malaria research because hedid what? | proved that mosquitoes can carry malaria |
The parasites that cause malaria are called what? | plasmodia |
The first organ that malaria parasites multiply in is the | liver |
What is anemia? | Low red blood cell count |
When malaria infected red blood cells explode, they flood the bloodstream with plasmodia and what? | toxins |
What are the stages in the mosquito life cycle from youngest to oldest? | Egg-larva-pupa-adult |
The fever experienced with malaria is the body’s response to the release of what? | toxins |
Name two effective ways to eliminate mosquitoes. | Drain the breeding habitat, kill adult mosquitoes with insecticide, kill larvae with larvacide |
The most effective way to eliminate plasmodia is to use what? | anti-malarial drugs |
Insects and rodents that spread disease are known as what? | vectors |
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