Explorers Blog Entry 2

I am first going to the Nevada Desert in the America. The capital of the America is Washington D.C in Maryland. Canada and Mexico border America, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean border America too. The GPS coordinates of the Nevada Desert 38˚37'03.33" N 115˚58'04.33". It is very dry and there are a lot of cacti in the desert. This location supports many species of wildlife and has been around for millions of year.

Explorers Blog Entry 1

My name is Donkey and I am 13 years old. I am going to visit the Nevada Desert, Tabernas Desert, Atacama Desert, Sahara Desert, Australian Desert and the Gobi Desert. I am going to these locations because I just had the feeling to and I am feeling great about going to all of these locations. My parents are happy that I am getting out of the house.

Malaria

Around the world about half a billion people get infected with malaria each year. Nearly a million people actually die from malaria each year. Most cases of malaria occur in countries in Africa. 90 percent of malaria deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite that is mosquito-bourne. Plasmodium is the infectious parasite (which is the most deadly parasite) of malaria that infects the red blood cells. In areas like the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs and other organs can have tissue die due to lack of oxygen from the infected red blood cells. The name meaning “mal'aria” (meaning “bad air” in Italian), was the term shortened to “malaria” in the 20th century.
A disease resembling malaria or malaria has been noted for about 4,000 years. DDT was synthesized in 1874 by Othmer Zeidler but not discovered until 1939 by Paul Muller in Switzerland. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveren was the first to discover parasites in the blood of patients suffering from malaria in 1880. In 1890 Giovanni Grassi and Raimondo Filetti first introduced the names Plasmodium vivax and P. malariae for the two of the malaria parasites infecting humans. In 1896 Ronald Ross was the first to demonstrate that malaria parasites can be transmitted from the infected patients to mosquitos. In the 1930s the U.S. recorded millions of malaria cases. Transmission of malaria had been halted in the 1950s.
Malaria should be considered a medical emergency and be treated accordingly. The leading cause of death from malaria in the
United States is delay in diagnosis and treatment. Patients can have definitive diagnosis in laboratory tests if the tests demonstrate the malaria parasites or their components. Sometimes malaria can be fought in the spot it is transmitted with bed nets, insecticides and anti-malarial drugs. Nets treated with insecticides and draped over beds can cut malaria infections by half and children deaths by a third. In Zambia sprayers apply a film of DDT inside some mud houses and the insecticides lingers around for few months, repelling and killing mosquitos, to treat malaria before it is transmitted.
The female mosquito is of the genus Anopheles, the only insect that is capable of carrying the human malaria parasite. In the night the mosquito alights on a patch of exposed skin, hunches over in a head-lowered posture. Then the female Anopheles mosquito plunges her stiletto mouth parts into the human flesh. The plasmodia swim through the blood stream until they get to the liver. When they get to the liver the plasmodia burrow into a single cell. Flooded cars are good places for mosquitos to lay their eggs when the waters recede into pools.
Symptoms of malaria include the chills, flu-like symptoms, fever, diarrhea, vomiting and jaundice. There can be four to six hours of shaking chills with malarial attacks.
In conclusion, malaria is a very terrible disease and hopefully will never flourish in the U.S. Africa on the other hand will probably have malaria lurking around for a couple more years though unfortunately. After researching malaria I think it would really stink to have malaria.