Explorers Blog Entry 6

I am visiting the Atacama Desert in Chile. The capital of Chile is Santiago and the countries that border Chile are Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. The Pacific Ocean borders Chile. 35˚40'30.50" S 71˚32'34.72" are the GPS coordinates of the Atacama Desert. It is very rocky, flat and 50 times drier than the California's Death Valley in the Atacama Desert. The desert is 20 million years old. It is the driest desert in the world. The Atacama Desert is 11088 miles from the Gobi Desert. I got to my fifth location by plane and then car. It cost around 6,000 for everything to get to the Atacama Desert from the Gobi Desert. I had some problems when going to the desert from the airport in Chile because we got the truck stuck a couple of times. The Atacama Desert is so much drier from the Gobi Desert it is not even funny!!

Explorers Blog Entry 5

I am going to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. The capital of Mongolia is Ulaanbaatar and the countries that border Mongolia are China and Russia. The GPS coordinates of Mongolia are 46˚51'45.00 " N 103˚50'47.97. The climate of the Gobi Desert is hot and dry. It looks very sandy. The Gobi was part of the Mongol Empire back in the day. It is the biggest desert in Asia. The Gobi Desert is 5,149 miles from the Tabernas Desert. There were no layovers. I got to the Gobi Desert by airplanes and it cost around 4,500 for every thing. I think my travels are going well.

Explorers Blog Entry 4

I am visiting the Tabernas Desert in Spain. The capital of Spain is Madrid and the countries that borer Spain are Portugal and France. The Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean border Spain. The GPS coordinates of the Tabernas Desert 44˚46'03.13" N 5˚24'20.69 E. The climate is hot and dry and it looks very pebbly and rocky. I got to the Tabernas by airplane from the Sahara Desert which is about 827 miles between each other. The cost for the trip is about 3,500 dollars.

Explorers Blog Entry 3

I am going to the Sahara desert in Africa. The countries that border the Sahara Desert are Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ethiopia. A lake that borders the desert is Lake Chad. The GPS coordinates of the Sahara Desert are 19˚13'23.66" N 3˚25'53.81" E. It is very dry and hot in the Sahara Desert. Most of the landscape is brown and sandy. There has been big fights at the desert and it supports lots of wildlife because it is the biggest desert in the world. The distance between Mojave Desert to the Sahara Desert is 7,033 miles. The trip costs around 5,000 dollars.

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.