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What percentage of Malaria mortality occurs in Africa?
What is 91%
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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
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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.

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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

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What was the name of the Countess for which quinine was named after

What is Chinchona

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What are the two most common antimalarial medications?
What is doxycycline and quinine?
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In what year was Malaria eliminated from the US
What is 1950
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What is the name of the mosquito that transmits dengue

What is Aedes aegypti

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Is there currently a vaccine for dengue

What is No. Trials are being conducted for potential solutions

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What was the original remedy for malaria discovered by an Indiginous Indian Tribe
What is the bark from the Peruvian tree
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Below which temperature (in Celsius or Fahrenheit) are the bacteria that cause Malaria unable to survive
What is 20C or 68F
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What is the most common way that Americans do contract Malaria?
What is immigrants visiting their home countries and not practicing malaria protection
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Where in the world is dengue most commonly found

What is Tropical and subtropical regions including most Asian and Latin American countries.

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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

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What is the Italian phrase from which malaria is derived
What is Bad air
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Around how long has malaria been around?
What is 4,000 years
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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

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How many different strains of dengue are there

What is 4. DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, DEN-4

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What was the name of the British Officer stationed in India that discovered Mosquitoes transmitted malaria
What is Ronald Ross
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What is the name of the most common and most deadly malaria parasite?
What is plasmodium falciparum
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Which individual was responsible for recognizing multiple types of malaria parasite species in 1886?
What is Camillo Golgi
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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)

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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

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What is the name for the mechanism by which the malaria parasite can complete its growth cycle in the mosquito
What is extrinsic incubation period