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12/14/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Chemicals causing malaria outbreaks across Africa as mosquitoes grow increasingly resistant to insecticides

Though it might seem like a rare, foreign disease to many Americans, nearly half of the entire world’s population is at risk of contracting malaria, a serious and sometimes fatal parasitic disease spread by Anopheles mosquitoes. Symptoms vary, and can include less acute conditions like fever, nausea, vomiting and general weakness, or serious, life-threatening symptoms […]

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