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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- What are the most dangerous animals?
- (What does “most dangerous” mean?)
- What kind of animal causes the most human deaths?
- Mosquitos carry malaria, dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, Zika, West Nile, etc.
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- What could we do to reduce or prevent these diseases?
- - exterminate mosquitos
- - mosquito nets
- - vaccines
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- Read the article individually and underline any words that you don’t know.
- Discuss those words with your group to make sure everyone understands them.
- hinder = slow, delay, (almost) stop
- captive-bred = bred in captivity
- captivity = the condition of being captive (not free to move around, as in the wild)
- mosquito-borne = carried and delivered (borne) by mosquitos
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- Can you track down the original published research?
- https://gatesopenresearch.org/articles/2-36/v1
- The BBC often links directly to research in their articles. What are other ways you could track it down?
- - The university and the name of a researcher are in the article, so you could search for them.
- - You can also add key words like “mosquito”, “wolbachia”, and “townsville” to try to find this specific article.
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- Homework: Find some scientific or medical research recently published by researchers from your country. Email me with a link to the news article and (if possible) the original research article for the study.
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