Word: mosquitoe
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...group's showcase countries, with 1,000 vehicles, each of which is responsible for delivering health care to a region that may contain 20,000 patients. In the country's Binga district alone, deaths from malaria plunged 20% thanks to the ability of motorcycles to deliver mosquito-resistant bed nets and keep health-care workers mobile. As the Colemans have shown, when you keep workers mobile, you keep people alive...
...heard and feared this year, maybe after all we've learned, something will be different this holiday season. Maybe instead of buying Aunt Margaret a sweater, we'll buy a goat in her name from Heifer International to give a hungry family milk every day. Five dollars buys a mosquito net to guard a sleeping child. We'll find a mission. Raise the money. Raise an army. Save a life...
...diseases will spread northwards from the equator. The Pew Center for Climate Change estimates that, by the time we return for our 50th reunion, dengue hemorrhagic fever, a disease for which there is no known vaccine, will have begun entrenching itself in Texas and surrounding states. Malaria and untold mosquito-born pathogens will appear shortly afterwards...
...Dengue? Australian scientists working with Vietnam's Ministry of Health are experimenting with tiny, one mm.-long crustaceans called MESOCYCLOPS, which fight dengue fever by eating the larvae of mosquitoes that carry it. Villagers in Vietnam transferred the shellfish into mosquito breeding grounds where they are not usually found. Dengue is notoriously hard to eradicate but since 2002, there have been no cases of the disease in test areas. Still, scientists are cautious about widening the program to other regions: in Africa, "Mesos" are carriers of the notoriously parasitic Guinea worm...
Pollack says he can feel them walking around and feeding, but overall they’re far less irritating than a mosquito. He only parts with the lice while showering and has no reservations about bringing them home...