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