但他还指出另一层次的灾难没有得到全面的新闻报道,这些灾难包括:疟疾,艾滋病,农作物歉收——甚至全球变暖。
But he also noted another class of cataclysms that which receive no blanket news coverage: malaria, AIDS, crop failures - even global warming.
并非如此:历史纪录表明,疟疾此前已经在温带地区广泛分布——最北到了斯堪的纳维亚地区——并且甚至在小冰期的最冷的年份存活了下来。
Not so: historical records show that malaria has previously been widespread in temperate regions - as far north as Scandinavia - and survived even during the coldest years of the Little Ice Age.
该系统甚至还被用于预测疟疾等病虫害的爆发。
It even allows it to forecast outbreaks of insect-borne diseases such as malaria.
通过把氯喹与其它化合物结合在一起,科学家已经让这种药物对甚至对氯喹具有耐药性的疟疾仍然有效。
Researchers have made the drug — chloroquine — effective against even chloroquine-resistant malaria by binding it with another chemical.
他们甚至可以推算疟疾寄生虫为了在其他宿主比如哺乳动物上传播的进化比例。
They were able to estimate the rate at which malaria parasites would have had to diversify in order to spread to other hosts, like mammals.
执行世卫组织推荐策略的各个国家中,疟疾死亡人数降低了50%甚至更多。
Countries following WHO-recommended strategies are seeing drops of 50% and higher in malaria deaths.
一位昆虫专家说,气候变化可能对疟疾的发病率产生未曾预料到的影响,甚至会在未曾预料的地点减少发病率。
Climate change could have unexpected effects on the incidence of malaria - even reducing it in unforeseen places, says an insect expert.
科学家推测,寄生虫引发的人类疟疾可以追溯到1万年前,甚至几百万年。
Scientists have long speculated about just how ancient the disease is, and when the human malaria parasite originated, with wildly varying estimates from 10, 000 years to several million years ago.
为所有国家提供气候预报全球变暖可能会改变非洲的大片土地:使雨带转移,使疟疾和其它由昆虫传染的疾病四处扩散,甚至能改变撒哈拉沙漠的大小。
Global warming could transform large swaths of Africa: shifting rains, spreading malaria and other insect borne diseases, even changing the size of the Sahara Desert.
疟疾的常见症状有发烧,寒战,头痛,流汗并有可能渐诱发肝肾衰竭,休克甚至昏迷。
The usual symptoms of malaria are fever, chills, headache, and sweats that can progress to kidney and liver failure, shock, and even coma.
疟疾的常见症状有发烧,寒战,头痛,流汗并有可能渐诱发肝肾衰竭,休克甚至昏迷。
The usual symptoms of malaria are fever, chills, headache, and sweats that can progress to kidney and liver failure, shock, and even coma.
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