We know that those of human bad habits are very dangerous for out health. For example can cause skin cancer, respiration disturbance, human infertilness, and increases of diseases that cause by animal, bacteria, fungi, and virus.
The rising temperature on Earth can make the increase of diseases that cause by animal, bacteria, fungi, and virus. How come? The rising temperature can make the growth, develop, and reproduction such as mosquito rise really fast.
The increasing of mosquito can damage our health. Why? Because, mosquito can cause many disease such as Malaria.
Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium, which is transmitted via the bites of infected mosquitoes. In the human body, the parasites multiply in the liver, and then infect red blood cells.
Symptoms of malaria include fever, headache, and vomiting, and usually appear between 10 and 15 days after the mosquito bite. If not treated, malaria can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs. In many parts of the world, the parasites have developed resistance to a number of malaria medicines.
Key interventions to control malaria include: prompt and effective treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapies; use of insecticidal nets by people at risk; and indoor residual spraying with insecticide to control the vector mosquitoes.
Now, malaria spread really fast in most areas in the world. Like what happen in Kenya, China and Europe.
In Nairobi, Kenya (since 2009 until now), so many people died because of malaria, including the babies. This phenomenon raises many comments from sources and experts.
“Where temperature increases have tracked the global average, malaria epidemics have occurred in highland areas where cooler weather historically has kept down populations of disease-bearing mosquitoes” said Solomon M. Nzioka, a Kenyan Health Ministry consultant.
“Research shows that even a seemingly small rise in temperatures can produce a 10-fold increase in the mosquito population” he said.
“Highland malaria seems to be on the increase in the rainy season and when temperatures are high,” Nzioka said.
Menne cited a threat from other mosquito-borne diseases as well. “There’s an increased risk of local outbreaks, especially in the Mediterranean, of dengue and West Nile virus,” said WHO’s Dr. Bettina Menne.
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