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The British India played an important role in the history of malaria because it is where the causative agent was discovered in the mosquito
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True
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Plasmodium malariae and Plasmodium vivax are species of plasmodia that were imported to the USA during the early immigration to the Americas from Europe
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True
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Algeria played an important role in the history of malaria because it is where the causative agent was discovered in the infected French soldiers blood.
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True
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The earliest written record of malaria symptoms can be traced back to the Roman empire thus malaria was dubbed "Roman Fever" and the word malaria mean ‘bad air'
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False
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What makes Plasmodium falciparum unique is that it causes malaria when the male mosquito takes a blood meal.
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False
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The mosquito directly passes the plasmodium from one person to another when it bites successive people within a night of feeding
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False
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Plasmodium falciprum is the species of plasmodia that was imported to the USA during the slave trade from the ports of West Africa.
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True
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Concerning Anopheles and malaria, The male and the female mosquito both have the potential to infect humans with malaria.
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False
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Infection with Plasmodiaum malariae causes the red blood corpuscles to be sticky and clog capillaries.
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False
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Plasmodium ovale is the species of plasmodia that was imported to the USA during the slave trade from the ports of West Africa.
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False
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