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    In the 19th century‚ it was a common occurrence to die at an early age. Disease and sickness were easy to come by and if not everyone‚ almost everyone came across it and was infected with a disease. During and before the 1800s‚ most babies didn’t even survive infancy. It is proven that only one-third of the children lived past the age of nine. This also meant that those who did survive past the age of nine were still capable of catching fatal diseases. Fatal diseases were everywhere and were easy

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    Dengue Phato

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    tropical and subtropical areas and transmitted by a mosquito bite. Incubation is usually 3 to 6 days after the bite. Signs and symptoms include fever‚ severe joint and muscle pain‚ and rash. Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is a more severe presentation of dengue fever caused by the same mosquito bite. A strain of Arbovirus caused Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever and transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Characteristics of an Aedes aegypti mosquito: 1. Daybiting 2. Low-flying 3. Live in

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    The Golden Age of Piracy lasted from 1650-1730‚ but reached its peak from 1716-1726. This peak’s timing coincides with the Pirate Republic of New Providence. The formation and development of the Pirate Republic of New Providence cemented the period known as the Golden Age of Piracy; likewise‚ its fall hastened the end of this era. Nassau‚ in particular‚ was a prime location for a pirate republic. The Bahamas were the on the main shipping route for European-bound boats from South America‚ Mexico

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    Lymphatic Filariasis is not common‚ however it is common in sub-tropical and tropical regions of the world. The transmission of Lymphatic Filariasis is very interesting a mosquito bites a human the parasite beings to grow in the human‚ then another mosquito bites that human‚ the eggs grow in the mosquito move to its head‚ the mosquito bites the human‚ and the worms being to grow. The lymph nodes are affected and swelling of the lower limbs beings. It looks like there may be a cure for Brugia malayi by

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    NEEM (Azadirachta indica) OIL USED IN AN OIL BURNER AS INCENSE MOSQUITO REPELLENT LEADER: OCAMPO‚ YSABELLA ASST. LEADER: BALASOTO‚ JANUS MEMBERS: ALLASAS‚ PATRICIA CASTAÑARES‚ JASON MIRANDA‚ CHRISTIAN NEEM (Azadirachta indica) OIL USED IN AN OIL BURNER AS INCENSE MOSQUITO REPELLENT INTRODUCTION Mosquitoes are well-known pests to the entire human race. Later in the 90s‚ they discovered that these arthropods are also carriers responsible for transmission of devastating diseases to mankind

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    had to restore French control of the island‚ where slaves under Toussaint L’ouverture had seized power in a rebellion. Napoleon’s attempts to colonize were failed when his troops were ravaged by tropical diseases like as yellow fever‚ carried by mosquitos. Also‚ France was in conflict with Britain and Napoleon believed withholding this land from the US would drive the US into Britain’s arms. Because of these two problems‚ Napoleon decided to sell the Louisiana land to United States‚ cutting his loses

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    INSECT REPELLANT SPRAY

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    been serving from years as a mosquito repellent in the field of ancient and modern medicine. Commercially available mosquito repellents are chemical based and disastrous to human health. An attempt has been made to prepare a 100% herbal product based on Citronella leaf remains which is left out and of no use after steam distillation. It is cheap‚ effective and environment friendly. It is a first and preliminary work based on formulating and evaluating herbal mosquito repellent cakes using natural

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    infected mosquito feeds on an uninfected bird‚ the virus builds up on the bird. Then‚ another mosquito feeds on the infected bird‚ thus the mosquito becomes infected (Medicine.net). This cycle is repeated and at one point‚ the numbers of infected mosquitoes become great enough to transmit the West Nile virus to other animals such as horses or humans. So‚ humans get the West Nile virus from bites of a mosquito. The mosquito associated with the West Nile virus is primarily the Culex pipiens mosquito. This

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    parasite’s preferred vector that spreads malaria. When female anopheles mosquitoes‚ which prefer to feed in the night‚ bite an infected human‚ the parasites in ingested by the mosquito and in the process becomes infected with plasmodium sporozoites which are carried in the salivary glands of the mosquito. After the mosquito is infected‚ the gametocytes present in the human blood as at the time of biting and which have found its way into the mosquito’s intestine dissociates into male and female gametes

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    Persistent Pests In the 1960s‚ the World Health Organization (WHO) began a campaign to eradicate the mosquitos that transmit the disease malaria. Before that an organization in Southern Africa had produced a poison to kill these mosquitoes but it wasn’t completely successful. The produced poisons by the WHO kills most members of the insects population leaving only the resistant individuals to reproduce with new genes that somehow enable them to resist the chemical attack. The problems such insects

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