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Published: 19.12.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Anopheles Quadrimaculatus', 1.
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The Anopheles Quadrimaculatus causes 1,500,000 human deaths world wide, every year. This creature causes its victims to suffer through immense torture before slowly killing them within a period of 10 days. What may come as a shock, is that I'm talking about a small Common Malaria Mosquito.
Also known as the Anopheline Mosquito, these Malaria carrying parasites have been with us since the dawn of time. They probably originated in Africa along with mankind. Fossils of mosquitoes up to 30 million years old show that malaria was present well before written history. …

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