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What is the most common mammal?

The most common of mammals is man, followed by the house mouse, which lives side by side with him in all parts of the world.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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What is malaria?

It's hard to believe, but every year more than 2 million people die from malaria! It is one of the most common diseases in the world, especially in tropical river areas. It is not surprising that this disease is common in these places, since they are the habitat of anopheles - mosquitoes that carry malaria.

Malarial germs destroy red blood cells. Each microbe soon divides into several parts. Microbes get rid of red blood cells and attack new blood cells. This causes chills and fever. Chilliness alternating with fever is a clear sign of malaria. Attacks occur every 3-4 days.

In most cases, the destroyed red blood cells can clog the blood vessels (usually the brain), and then death occurs. The microbes live in the stomach of the female malarial mosquito. These microbes from the stomach through the salivary glands enter the mosquito into the proboscis (mouth). When a mosquito bites a person, the microbes enter the person's bloodstream.

Despite the fact that malaria is such a common disease, medicine believes in the possibility of ever getting rid of it completely. This will only be possible when malarial mosquitoes are controlled and germs are not spread. But in practice this can be done only on the basis of a joint program worked out by the international community. In the meantime, the best way to eradicate malaria is to spray dwellings in the malaria area with DDT.

Another way to fight malaria is to destroy the offspring of malarial mosquitoes. To do this, they drain swamps, stagnant lakes - all kinds of places where malarial mosquitoes can lay their eggs. Before the true cause of malaria was discovered, it was thought that the cause was the evaporation of "poisonous" swamps. The origin of the name of the disease is connected with this. The word "malaria" comes from Italy. In translation, it means "bad air"!

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