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Why Malaria Isn’t Just A Tropical Disease

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

  • Anthropophily: an organism’s propensity to feed on humans rather than other animals
  • Biogeography: the study of the distribution of species and organisms throughout space and time
  • Malaria Control: the reduction of malaria’s impacts to a locally acceptable level as a result of deliberate efforts. Continued intervention is required to sustain control.
  • Malaria Elimination: the interruption of local transmission (i.e. reducing the rate of malaria cases to zero) of a specified malaria parasite in a defined geographic area. Continued intervention is needed to prevent reestablishment of transmission.
  • Malaria Eradication: the permanent reduction to zero of the worldwide incidence of infection caused by human malaria parasites, after which intervention measures are no longer needed (e.g. as with smallpox, the only disease we've eradicated)


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