In the South East Asia region, India accounts for 58% of the reported case load. As per the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), India has reported 62,129 #malaria cases in 2020 till June. In 2019, the country reported 3.3 lakh confirmed cases.
The government of India has set a target to eliminate malaria disease by 2030.
The non-profit organisation, @MalariaNoMore has also launched a new national campaign ‘Bite ko mat lo lite’ this year. The campaign has been launched across 21 states of India and aims to educate people, to take necessary precautions against mosquito bites.
#Mosquitoes are the most common vectors that transmit several diseases like Zika virus, West Nile virus, Chikungunya virus, dengue, and malaria.
Worldwide, nearly 3,500 species of #mosquitoes have been identified, while in India alone, there are over 400 species, and almost all of them carry diseases.
#Malaria is typically caused by the parasite called #Plasmodium carried by female Anopheles mosquitoes. These vectors transmit the disease mainly by biting a person.
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The cases of malaria shoot up sharply during the #monsoon season, as mosquitoes have enough sources to breed and expand their population within a very short time.
A #malaria attack goes through 3 stages in the human body—the cold stage, the hot stage, and the sweating stage. The most common symptoms of the disease include headaches, vomiting and nausea, chills, sweats and body aches.
- Female mosquitoes produce 100-300 eggs at a time on a still-water surface and these hatch within 48 hours. The larvae grow into adult mosquitoes within two weeks.
#DidYouKnow | A female mosquito can produce eggs up to 10 times in her life span of just two months.
-The world #malaria is a combination of two Italian words—mal and aria—this means bad air. While the world mosquito is derived from Spanish, which means ‘little fly’.
-Only female #Anopheles mosquitoes can cause malaria, since male mosquitoes do not bite animals. Anopheles mosquitoes need human blood to enable maturation of their eggs.
-Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) is the deadliest parasite among the five known types of Plasmodium—a type of protozoa—which infect humans and cause malaria.
- #Mosquitoes are said to be responsible for the death of anywhere between 5 to 50 percent of approximately 108 billion people who have ever lived on Earth. Even today, these tiny insects claim more than 7,00,000 lives every year. #StopTheSpread#Mosquitoes#WorldMosquitoDay🦟
-Vector-borne diseases account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases. They can be caused by either parasites, bacteria or viruses and spread through vectors like mosquitoes and fleas.
As per the Malaria Institute of India, about 100 million people suffered from malaria in India in 1935, and approximately one million deaths occurred annually in endemic areas.
While searching for life in the Gulf of Mexico, researchers pulled out a new bizarre-looking species of isopod, whose head resembles the Darth Vader from Star Wars!
This new-found crustacean, named Bathonymus yucatanensis, has 14 legs and is around 26 cm long — approximately 25 times larger than its closest relative, the common woodlouse.
While these blonde creatures seem pretty scary, the "Vanilla Vaders" are, in fact, harmless to humans.
Their huge size is only due to deep-sea gigantism — a phenomenon wherein ocean dwellers grow bigger than their terrestrial relatives due to lack of sunlight.
This super-Earth is a rocky world, on which a year is equal to just 11 Earth days.
The short orbit is down to the red dwarfs being a lot smaller than the Sun that centres our solar system. But the smaller sizes also make their gravitational fields less expansive than the Sun's.
Therefore, Ross 508b revolves around its red dwarf at a distance of just 5 million km. Mercury, in comparison, is about 60 million km from the Sun.
The short distance between this super-Earth & its red dwarf begs the question: how could it possibly be habitable?
#Japan is making grand plans of creating interplanetary #trains and champagne flute-like glass habitats in its bid to send and host humans on the #Moon and #Mars!
An interplanetary transportation system dubbed the 'Hexatrack', which maintains a gravity of 1G during long-distance travel to mitigate the effects of prolonged exposure to low gravity, has been proposed by #Japanese researchers.
The #trains will also possess 'Hexacapsules', which are essentially hexagon-shaped capsules with a moving device in the middle.
In 2012, the almost-complete skeleton of a new kind of #dinosaur was found in the northern Patagonia region of #Argentina.
The dinosaur has been christened #Meraxes gigas. The generic epithet is an ode to a dragon in the #GameOfThrones series.
Standing at the height of 11 m (36 ft) and weighing roughly 4000 kgs, the #dinosaur sported several crests, bumps and horns on its skull, which lent it a menacing appearance.
But the highlight of the findings is that the dinosaur had teeny-tiny arms, just like the #Trex!
Dr Jose, along with an international research team from the US, UK and Australia, will be examining the Galactic Centre Cloud (GCC) — the central molecular zone of our Milky Way — in April 2023.
They have been allotted 27.3 hours over the access period of 12 months.