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MalariaMalaria, which kills 1 to 2 million people each year (90 percent in Africa) and affects hundreds of millions, is the world's most important vectorborne disease. Malarial epidemics are complex: rain and temperature affect numbers of mosquitoes and the development of parasites in mosquitoes. Human landscape changes such as farm clearing, deforestation, and dam and housing construction also affect populations of mosquitoes. Some mosquitoes and parasites have become resistant to insecticides like DDT or drugs like chloroquine. Human movement can spread the disease. Public health infrastructure is crucial to managing malaria, and most recent outbreaks have occurred in areas of civil strife. Malaria is a major challenge to public health and the creation of sustainable communities in sub-Saharan Africa and other infected areas. |
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Keywords plasmodium falciparum, Anopheles mosquitoes, public health, drug resistance, DDT resistance, ecosystem change, vectorborne disease, water management, climate change, deforestation, civil strife, Blue Nile Health Project (Sudan), economic development and disease, human migration and disease, bednets, pyrethroid insecticides, indoor spraying, sub-Sahara Africa, vector control, environmental health, public health |
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