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Mosquitoes are a menace that thrives in warm and humid conditions; they mostly appear during summer and breed in the rainy season.
These tiny blood-sucking pests transmit malaria, a serious, age-old disease that has been affecting people for long now. Mosquitoes are also responsible for the spread of some other diseases like dengue and chikungunya, among others. It is fascinating to know that mosquitoes have been around for over a hundred million years, and mosquito bites have caused millions of deaths. Over 6 million deaths occur every decade due to malaria caused by mosquito bites.
World Mosquito Day is observed to honor the British Army surgeon Sir Ross who in 1897 proved the association of mosquitoes to malaria by recognizing pigmented parasites of malaria in the pest that sucked blood from an infected person. This discovery was groundbreaking in terms of increasing information about the disease and led to the invention of new prevention methods. In 1902, Ross was conferred the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology.
The first World Mosquito Day was declared by Ross to educate people about the connection between malaria and mosquitoes. However, despite the improved knowledge of the disease, its cause, and the various preventive measures and medicines, no vaccine for malaria has been invented so far.
Here is the World Day of Mosquito timeline:
The disease enters Europe and reaches Rome. It travelled through the river Nile to reach the Caribbean and spread across the North.
Here, the epidemic of Malaria devastated the Roman Empire’s Campagna region and destroyed its population by killing countless people.
It was in this year that a British doctor linked mosquitoes and malaria
Ronald Ross. He discovered that female mosquitoes are the carriers of malaria parasites, and they do the transmission.
In the 1930s, the USA’s Appalachian region was hugely affected by malaria unless the TVA or the Tennessee Valley Authority took charge to limit the spread.
In 1946, the Centre for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) was formed. This organization was the result of an earlier organization known as Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) which was established to focus on monitoring and eradicating malaria.
World Mosquito Day can be celebrated in different ways, as mentioned below:
The Importance of World Mosquito Day can be traced to the following points:
To Sum Up
Malaria is a common disease that has affected almost every continent apart from Antarctica. The disease remains a huge concern in different parts of the globe, especially in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. Every year millions of people contract malaria. Africa suffered the most in the year 2010 with 90% of causes of death being diagnosed as malaria.
The World Mosquito Day is a way to teach people about the causes of malaria and the preventive measures that can help them stay away from the diseases.
Another important aspect is to purchase a comprehensive health insurance policy that can help you fight malaria and other diseases caused by mosquito bites without losing your savings. Not just malaria, mosquitoes are also the carrier of other diseases like Zika virus, Chikungunya virus, and Dengue etc., which causes health hazards every year in India and worldwide. Hence, you need an all-inclusive health policy to stay protected.
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The female Anopheles bite humans to obtain the blood to nurture their eggs. They infect people with the parasite by biting affected people first and then infecting healthy people with that infected blood.
The female Anopheles mosquito or the malaria mosquito is usually active between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. They are the only mosquito to transmit malaria, and they bite mostly at sunset and during the night.
Yes, even a single bite from an infected mosquito causes malaria.
The life of a male mosquito in days is around 6 or 7 on average. They generally feed on plant nectar. Female mosquitoes suck blood and can live up to 5 months. However, the average life of female mosquitoes is over 6 weeks.
Dengue viruses are spread to people through mosquito bites of infected Aedes species. The symptoms are high fever, severe headache, joint pain, nausea, vomiting, skin rashes and in some severe cases breathing difficulty and bleeding.
The Theme for World Mosquito Day 2022 was “Harness innovation to reduce the malaria disease burden and save lives”. The World Mosquito Day 2023 theme is not yet declared.
It is celebrated on 20th August every year.
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