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7 09, 2017

What is malaria? History of diseases and medicine

By |2019-11-24T11:28:37-08:00September 7th, 2017|Africa, Science|Comments Off on What is malaria? History of diseases and medicine

A baby with malaria (from World Health Organization) - Malaria history How do you get malaria? You catch malaria by being bitten by a mosquito that has malaria parasites living inside it. [...]

6 09, 2017

What is dengue fever? History of disease and medicine

By |2018-04-25T10:34:33-07:00September 6th, 2017|Science|Comments Off on What is dengue fever? History of disease and medicine

Dengue history: the dengue virus - magnified many times Dengue history Probably dengue fever didn't exist before the late 1700s AD, so in the ancient and medieval worlds there was no [...]

25 05, 2017

Why do mosquitoes bite? Biology

By |2018-04-15T17:18:17-07:00May 25th, 2017|Biology|Comments Off on Why do mosquitoes bite? Biology

Mosquitoes bite people: A mosquito on human skin Like bees, mosquitoes evolved from earlier flies and dragonflies about 200 million years ago, during the Jurassic period. Mosquitoes have six legs like [...]

25 05, 2017

What are arthropods? Biology

By |2019-02-03T21:35:07-08:00May 25th, 2017|Biology|Comments Off on What are arthropods? Biology

Bee on a flower What are arthropods? Insects, spiders, crabs, and lobsters are all arthropods, so there are a lot of arthropods on Earth. Annelid worms All our biology articles [...]

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