“He was sweating and he has the chill
He was feeling weaking and had no thrill!
He got up with a scream!
Luckily it was just a feverish dream!”
There was a snap of a great white shark with the person who caught it and the caption read something in the lines of, “Here lies the most dangerous animal in the world! seen here with a shark!”
Of course the quote is true to some extent but not accurate since the homo sapien is not the most dangerous animal, (for now at least)! That place goes to a member of the animal species which is so small! But it can still cause great damage!
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In a list compiled by BBC! Nowadays whenever I read a forward like this my skeptive meter gets activated! The best and the most and the greatest are adjectives which are not given great prominence in scientific data assembly! When terms like these are used then you can be sure that the data is not true! Like how a water from a village in your place has been deemed as the best water according to UNESCO! Like UNESCO has no other work other than drink your village water and test it!
Still on an average, in the list of the top most dangerous animals (for humans) in the world the second place is taken up by the Human Being!
We are at number two in a list of top ten! Ironically, even here the Homo Sapien couldn’t come first!
The number one spot was taken by the one the one that makes the irritating noise in the night!
The one who can wake up a drunk! The one who can shake you to the core and the one whose rhythmic sound will never sound like music to the greatest connoisseur of music!
The one species where females are much advanced than the males and can things which the males cannot do!
The mosquito!
The tiny mosquito Kills 725,000 per year through spreading diseases such as malaria! Interestingly mosquitoes live indoors and outdoors and can actually bite day and night!
Female mosquitoes often live longer than male mosquitoes and another quirky thing is that the males literally suck (fruit juice that is!)!
Meaning only female mosquitoes bite animals to get a blood meal to produce eggs! It takes just a few infected mosquitoes to start an outbreak in a community so it is not a number game!
Now of course we have a proper treatment protocol for Malaria but in the ancient days Malaria was a death sentence! In the game far Cry 2, the player has malaria and he needs pills frequently! This is shown so realistically that in the peak of escaping the goons in a stolen car with a bad gun with your life ; you get a malaria chill and your vision gets blurry! Even in a game it was difficult to survive!
Now for years people in places it is indigenous have found different cures for the disease.
Agostino Salumbrino (1564–1642) an apothecary by training who lived in Lima (Peru), observed the Quechua (tribe in South America) using the bark of the cinchona tree to treat such shivering and fever.
While its effect in treating malaria (and malaria-induced shivering) was unrelated to its effect in controlling shivering from rigors, it was a successful medicine against malaria!
At the first opportunity, Salumbrino sent a small quantity to Rome for testing as a malaria treatment. In the years that followed, cinchona bark, known as Jesuit’s bark or Peruvian bark, became one of the most valuable commodities shipped from Peru to Europe.
When King Charles II was cured of malaria at the end of the 17th Century with quinine, it became popular in London. Till 1940s, it was the first and most popular treatment of malaria!
Now still, what caused the infection was still a mystery which was finally solved by an passionate researcher.
Sir Ronald Ross was one of the pioneers who was obsessed with Malaria! He theorised that it was transmitted by mosquito! And in India he sought to demonstrate it on a patient! But as fate would have it he was posted out to a place which was not endemic for malaria!
That was Calcutta, then his mentor Sir Patrick Manson encouraged him to study the life cycle of malaria in birds! When you are stuck then you are lucky if you have mentors and teachers who can guide you or rescue you!
That was what happened! Ross demonstrated the life cycle of malarial parasites in avian or bird malaria! The process which in addition to his amazing prevention strategies lead to the Nobel prize in Medicine in 1902!
Now we do not what and how but still the female mosquito remains as strong as ever! A strong female as a character also is the main feature of movies by birthday celebrity K Bharathiraja! Just watched the movie Muthal Mariyathai in you tube! Nostalgic!
Now make sure there are no mosquitos and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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