MOSQUITOS AND MALARIA.
It is estimated that the deaths annually from malaria number seme two millions, and this figure may probably be multiplied by two or three hundred if one would arrive at the total number of people in the world affected by the complaint. Malaria is mainly a disease of the tropics, and is caused by a minute parasite in the blood. The parasites in one malaria patient may number anything from one hundred to a thousand millions. Sir Ronald Ross discovered that ut was not the marsh but the mosquito which bred in the marsh which was the originator of the . disease. He declares that the parasite of malaria is, to the mosquito which carries it, as a threepenny-bit would be to a hippopotamus!
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Shannon News, 2 September 1924, Page 3
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126MOSQUITOS AND MALARIA. Shannon News, 2 September 1924, Page 3
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