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How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: 

  • Malaria - a life-threatening disease caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes.
  • Parasite - an organism that benefits by living in/on a host organism and deriving nutrients at the host's expense.
  • Host - an organism in/on which another organism lives.
  • Protozoa - a group of single-celled microscopic animals (not bacteria or viruses) that includes the Plasmodium species.
  • Plasmodium - a genus of parasitic protozoa, many of which cause malaria in their hosts. Four species regularly infect humans: P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae, & P. ovale.
  • P. falciparum - the Plasmodium species that kills the most people, by causing malignant malaria, the most dangerous form of malaria.
  • Anopheles gambiae - a ‘complex' of at least seven species of mosquitoes that are the main vectors of P. falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • Species complex - a group of closely related species that look so similar that the boundaries between them are often unclear.
  • Hunting and gathering - depending primarily on wild foods for subsistence
  • Paleontology - the study of fossils and what fossils tell us about the past, about evolution, and about how humans fit into the world.


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