EESA10H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unthinkable, Rodenticide, Green Climate Fund
18 Apr 2018
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Parasite that causes (cid:373)ala(cid:396)ia is o(cid:374)e of the (cid:373)ost (cid:272)o(cid:373)ple(cid:454) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)il(cid:455) pathoge(cid:374)s k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) to hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)s (cid:894)li(cid:448)es half it"s life in cold blooded mosquito and other half in hot human body) both hostile conditions. So the insect is trying to fight off the parasite. It is a shape shifter malaria virus transforms itself 7 times in its life cycle. They all look different and have different physiology (get cure for one stage but does work on others) can live in our body for very long time. 12 species of mosquitoes carry most of the worlds malaria: economic challenge malaria occurs in poorest places (live in bad housing, no door screens, no electricity, poverty causes malaria, malaria also cause poverty. Malaria there at time of harvest, when farmers need to cut their field (but their home sick with the fever) Have malaria, economic growth suppressed by 1. 3 percent a year. Hard to spread cure when no infrastructure (roads etc)
