During World War II people started to use pesticide DDT so the rate of Malaria decreased. In 1962 Rachel Carson published The Silent Spring where she explained the consequences of the excessive use of DDT. The book sold multiple copies of it making it to the top best sellers. Which makes various male scientists and reporters angry. An example of this is the environmentalist that said that Rachel C. was just promoting a mass murder. In the book she exposed tha mosquitoes are insects that constantly mutate to adapt to new places and circumstances. Years later after a decrease of Malaria the mosquito came back and this time more strongly making that the Malaria increased rapidly. However, let’s explain malaria, symptoms and rate of reproduction. Malaria is a parasite that infected mosquitoes and later on the mosquitoes infected the human. Infecting over 29 million people on a yearly basis. The symptoms vary through high fiber, chills, nauseas, diarrhea etc.
After the DDT mosquitoes got inmune scientific started checking out what to do so they can do so the Malaria decrease. Which makes Rachel C. say “Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably, a war against himself.” Because at the end everything is a cycle making the humans receiving contaminated food, drinks, be in a world full of sickness, provoking that it’s the worst consequence of the chemicals. These chemicals would also affect human development and the hospital services. That leads me to the other point, which is the fact that hospital services are basically saturated and don’t have ways of saving the millions of people that get infected by malaria in Africa. So depending on the country it’s the way that malaria and the seriousness of it would be threatened.
As a young person I dont think Malaria is a not an infection that has a big effect on the USA or PR is more serious on the Old World, specifically Africa. However, it has alway been something wierd of how quickly this infection spread; making me think of the origin of this if it was a thing created or mutated by the human by error. Or if Africa actually has the power to get the infection increased but his political system just prefers to not do it.
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