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Quick Fact #1
No other products or machines
on the market can kill as many mosquitoes or reduce mosquito populations
in a one-acre area as effectively or quickly as the Mosquito Killing
System
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Malaria is a serious, sometimes fatal, disease caused by a Malaria parasite. Malaria occurs in over 100 countries and territories. More than 40% of the people in the world are at risk. The World Health Organization estimates that yearly 300-500 million cases of malaria occur and more than 1 million people die of malaria. About 1,200 cases of malaria are diagnosed in the United States each year. Most cases in the United States are in immigrants and travelers returning from malaria-risk areas. Humans get malaria from the bite of a malaria-infected mosquito. When a mosquito bites a malaria infected person, it ingests microscopic malaria parasites found in the person’s blood. The malaria parasite must grow in the mosquito for a week or more before malaria infection can be passed to another person. If, after a week, the mosquito then bites another person, the malaria parasites go from the mosquito’s mouth into the person’s blood. The malaria parasites then travel to the person’s liver, enter the liver’s cells, grow and multiply. During this time when the parasites are in the liver, the person has not yet felt sick. The malaria parasites leave the liver and enter red blood cells; this may take as little as 8 days or as many as several months. Once inside the red blood cells, the malaria parasites grow and multiply. The red blood cells burst, freeing the malaria parasites to attack other red blood cells. Toxins from the malaria parasite are also released into the blood, making the person feel sick. If a mosquito bites this person while the malaria parasites are in his or her blood, it will ingest the tiny malaria parasites. After a week or more, the mosquito can infect another person with malaria. Symptoms of malaria include fever and flu-like illness, including shaking chills, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. Nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may also occur. Malaria may cause anemia and jaundice because of the loss of red blood cells. Infection with one type of malaria, Plasmodium falciparum, if not promptly treated, may cause kidney failure, seizures, mental confusion, coma, and death. For most people, symptoms begin 10 days to 4 weeks after infection, although a person may feel ill as early as 8 days or up to 1 year later. Malaria is diagnosed by looking for the parasites in a drop of blood. Blood will be put onto a microscope slide and stained so that the malaria parasites will be visible under a microscope. Persons living in, and travelers to, any area of the world where malaria is transmitted may become infected. Malaria can be cured with prescription drugs. The type of drugs and length of treatment depend on which kind of malaria is diagnosed, where the patient was infected, the age of the patient, and how severely ill the patient was at start of treatment. |
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Quick Fact #2
Mosquitoes usually stay within 100
yards of their hatching site. Each mosquito caught is a female that can
lay 300 eggs. Every 1,000 mosquitoes eliminated, reduces the population by
300,000.
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