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How Was Malaria Eliminated?

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How Was Malaria Eliminated? By the end of 1949, more than 4,650,000 house spray applications had been made. It also included drainage, removal of mosquito breeding sites, and spraying (occasionally from aircrafts) of insecticides. Total elimination of transmission was slowly achieved. How did malaria disappear? Malaria transmission in the United States was eliminated in the

Where Did The Word Malaria Come From?

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Where Did The Word Malaria Come From? In fact, the word “malaria” actually derives from the Italian for “bad air”– the mal’aria associated with marshes and swamps. A single-celled parasite known as a sporozoan causes malaria. This sporozoan belongs to the genus Plasmodium, and the four species that threaten humans are P. falciparum, P. Who