ECON 1915 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Waterborne Diseases, Malaria, Sub-Saharan Africa
3 Apr 2017
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Parasite of malaria lures mosquitoes to humans. Parasite rapidly goes to liver within 30 mins. Gets into blood stream, attaches and enters red blood cells more reproduction. Pailin, cambodia is a hot spot for malaria. A lot of migrants go through pailin to get from cambodia and thailand and vice versa. Monotherapy is bad because malaria needs 2 drugs to treat it. Greatest threat posed is many fake drugs had traces of artemecin: makes malaria drug resistant to this drug. People aren"t using the allocated nets as they should: people also don"t know how to use them essentially just dropped the nets off on doorsteps. The historical ecology of malaria in ethiopia james mccann (sep. 29, 2015 pardee center) Different kinds of malaria that require different treatments. Malaria is a very complex disease to treat and prevent because of mutation. Hence, single-stranded solutions do not work (bed nets, household spraying, drugs and vaccines, larval nutrition)
