What percentage of Malaria mortality occurs in Africa?
What is 91%
100
Names of two Americans responsible for getting the Panama canal project back on track by dramatically reducing rates of malaria and yellow fever
What is Joseph Leprince and Samuel Darling
100
Name one location where dengue cases have arose in the US?
What is Dengue is endemic in Puerto Rico. A few cases have come up in southern states between Texas and Florida.
100
Does the mosquito causing dengue bite during the day or night
What is The mosquitos feed during the day most commonly during dawn and dusk
100
What was the name of the Countess for which quinine was named after
What is Chinchona
200
What are the two most common antimalarial medications?
What is doxycycline and quinine?
200
In what year was Malaria eliminated from the US
What is 1950
200
What is the name of the mosquito that transmits dengue
What is Aedes Aegypti
200
Is there currently a vaccine for dengue
What is No. Trials are being conducted for potential solutions
200
What was the original remedy for malaria discovered by an Indiginous Indian Tribe
What is the bark from the Peruvian tree
300
Below which temperature (in Celsius or Fahrenheit) are the bacteria that cause Malaria unable to survive
What is 20C or 68F
300
What is the most common way that Americans do contract Malaria?
What is immigrants visiting their home countries and not practicing malaria protection
300
Where in the world is dengue most commonly found
What is Tropical and subtropical regions including most Asian and Latin American countries.
300
Name one of the factors contributing to the recent resurgence of dengue
What is Population growth, increased urbanization, lack of effective mosquito control, increased air travel, and poor public health infrastructures
300
What is the Italian phrase from which malaria is derived
What is Bad air
400
Around how long has malaria been around?
What is 4,000 years
400
What property of water is imperative for mosquito larvae to survive
What is surface tension
400
List two symptoms of severe dengue
What is Fever, abdominal pain, vomiting, internal bleeding, difficulty breathing
400
How many different strains of dengue are there
What is 4. DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, DEN-4
400
What was the name of the British Officer stationed in India that discovered Mosquitoes transmitted malaria
What is Ronald Ross
500
What is the name of the most common and most deadly malaria parasite?
What is plasmodium falciparum
500
Which individual was responsible for recognizing multiple types of malaria parasite species in 1886?
What is Camillo Golgi
500
Where does the earliest record of dengue come from
What is The first published case dates back to the Chin dynasty (265 to 420 A.D)
500
Name a place that the dengue mosquito would like to nest
What is Bird bath, old tire, old container, trash pile, flower pot, pool cover, wading pool or shallow water areas, clogged gutter, drainage ditch, children’s toys
500
What is the name for the mechanism by which the malaria parasite can complete its growth cycle in the mosquito