HLTC23H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Apicomplexan Life Cycle
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Lecture #9: golobal i the four horsemen of the apocalypse and a baby. Most dangerous (non-human) animals in perspective: venomous snakes: @250, 000 fatalities/year, scorpions: @2000 fatalities/year, big cats: @800 fatalities/year, crocodiles: @800 fatalities/year, mosquitoes: @1-3 mil l ion fatalities/year. Plasmodium falciparum: strain of malaria tha is particularly virulent, appears to directly affect the central nervous system, can cause neurological sequelae and epilepsy, most common form of malaria. 350-500 million infections in humans: one to three million deaths annually, malaria has killed more people than all wars and plagues combined, transmitted by anopheles mosquitoes, vaccination efforts have failed. I was born of a british stock on january 9, 1933 in northern rhodesia, now zambia, in central africa. As an infant of eighteen months i was struck down by cerebral www. notesolution. com malaria, delirious for ten days. The doctors told my parents that it was probably better if i died, because if i survived i would be brain damaged.
