Posted on 07/12/2023 5:24:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What's the deadliest animal in the world? A tiger? A great white shark? A poisonous snake? Nope. The most dangerous animal on Earth weighs about 2/1000 of a gram, is smaller than an M&M, and could be knocked silly by a raindrop. It's the mosquito.
Mosquitoes, obviously, can't eat you the way a shark or tiger could. They act as "vectors" for a number of diseases, one of which is malaria. When a mosquito of the species Anopheles bites you, it extracts blood as a meal and leaves some of its saliva. The saliva harbors any of a number of disease-causing organisms. In the case of malaria, it's a single-celled parasite in the genus Plasmodium. There were over 240 million cases of the disease (with 627,000 deaths) in 2020, almost all from mosquito bites.
The United States has, in the past, had its own problems with malaria. In fact, a 1933 survey found that up to thirty percent of local populations in the Tennessee River Valley were affected. The disease was also common in WWII war zones. Malaria became such a concern that the CDC was established primarily to combat it.
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In the age of air-conditioning, you might consider malaria to be an issue for the Amazon rainforest or sub-Saharan Africa. In recent weeks, however, five cases have been reported as originating locally in Florida and Texas. Local transmission hasn't occurred in the U.S. for twenty years. Almost all American malaria victims contracted the infection when they were traveling abroad.
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An alternative hypothesis you won't hear about is the possibility that aliens crossing the border, many of whom come from countries where malaria is common, may be carrying the parasite.
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Well who could have seen this coming?
White Nationalists?…
Why did it return to the USA? Hmmm...lemme guess: does it have anything to do with our southern border?
Do I really need to read this? There are many diseases that have returned to the US and we all know why.
Three letters could completely eradicate Malaria, but of course, when drugs and chemical compounds become political, they’d rather people die.
DDT
Agreed. DDT will clear this up PDQ!
I recall reading that it’s also effective against deer ticks, eradicating Lyme Disease too.
I posted years ago that they were bringing tuberculosis back in to the country. It doesn’t matter anymore as now it’s OBVIOUS that the ruling elites simply do not care about those of us already living here. I have decided all we can do is sit here and wait for the consequences.
That Malaria comes to the US is only equitable. Welcome to the third world.
Isn’t ivermectin the medicine used to cure malaria?
“Why malaria returned to the USA”
Ia that obama’s oldest daughter?
Not liberals. They're a genuinely stupid demographic and represent a conduit of every evil that plagues America. It doesn't help that they smoke dope. Libertarians are the worst. Stupid, that is.
Illegals Illegals Illegals Illegals and Illegals
Hydroxychloroquine, not Ivermectin.
The big one that Ivermectin deals with is African River Blindness. HCQ is malaria. It is an OTC drug in much of the world. Both are. It is ridiculous they are not, here.
Malaria exists in the US and in the countries sending illegal aliens to the US only because the US created the EPA and appointed an environmental kook named William Ruckelshaus who banned DDT despite all the scientific evidence showing it was safe.
Like any other disease, it was brought into the Country by unvaxxed, unvetted illegals, thanks to Biden and Mayorkas.
Absolutely nothing to do with those millions of mosquitoes the FDA just allowed Bill Gates to let loose in just the 2 states that have now come up with malaria cases!
of course it is the 3rd and 4th worlders.
ugh.
Another gift from the invading horde.
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