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World map of Plasmodium falciparum endemicity in 2010 World map of Plasmodium vivax endemicity in 2010. The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) is a nonprofit academic group led by Peter Gething, Kerry M Stokes Chair in Child Health, at the Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia.
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) [1] was an African-American woman [4] whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line [A] and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific ...
A world map illustrating the proportion of population aged 15-49 infected with HIV in 2019. HIV is endemic especially in Southern Africa. In 2011, sub-Saharan Africa was home to 69% of all people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. [205] In response, a number of initiatives have been launched to educate the public on HIV/AIDS.
This would be similar to the hemoglobin allele which is responsible for sickle-cell disease, but solely in people with two copies; those with just one copy of the allele have a sickle cell trait and gain partial immunity to malaria as a result. This effect is called heterozygote advantage. [27]
Plasmodium falciparum is a unicellular protozoan parasite of humans, and the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. [2] The parasite is transmitted through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito and causes the disease's most dangerous form, falciparum malaria.
Communist symbols have been banned, in part or in whole, by a number of the world's countries. [1] As part of a broader process of decommunization, these bans have mostly been proposed or implemented in countries that belonged to the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, including some post-Soviet states.