GEO 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vise, Mosquito Range, Global Warming
27 Mar 2016
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Lecture 14 mosquitoes, climate and disease date _____________ Reduce population of mosquitoes and use spray personally. Most important vector borne disease in the world linked to. Dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome dhf. Link to temperature therefore height of land a factor as well. Usually mild lasing several days ater being biten by infected mosquito. Symptoms: (about 1 in 5 infected with zika virus become ill) Most of work has been centered on the possible link to birth defects. Virus can be passes to a fetus - greatest risk is during the irst 3 months of pregnancy. Recent surge in the number of babies born with microcephaly (unnaturally small brain) Link to number in brazil secondary type of assumption. Link uncovered in brazil with tests on issues of deceased child traces of zika virus in brain. Brazil had gone through 20x increase in the number of micro cephalic newborns. Now problem of link to gillain-barr syndrome g-bs.
