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malaria

/muh-lair-ee-uh/US // məˈlɛər i ə //UK // (məˈlɛərɪə) //

疟疾,疟疾病,疟疾病人,冷热病

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Pathology. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now known to be caused by a parasitic protozoan, which is transferred to the human bloodstream by a mosquito of the genus Anopheles and which occupies and destroys red blood cells.
    • : Archaic. unwholesome or poisonous air.

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Examples

  • Plus, there had already been a failed attempt to eradicate malaria.

  • Consider, for context, that the infectious agent that causes malaria has been known for 140 years and there still, as yet, is no approved vaccine to prevent the disease.

  • Talking about zoonotic diseases is different than talking about tuberculosis or malaria.

  • In the future, the breakthrough is likely to speed the development of new medicines for everything from malaria to cancer.

  • Portugal, now at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, and her colleagues identified around 600 people in Mali infected with malaria in 2017 and 2018.

  • Kids suffering from malaria or extreme diarrhea are now too often left without medical care.

  • She says the nurses have done some tests and say her daughter has malaria.

  • Malaria, which is spread my mosquitoes, has also been on the rise since the camp was flooded.

  • With less than a dozen toilets in the entire community, poor sanitation fuels high rates of malaria and lethal cases of diarrhea.

  • A shocking statistic among many is that, on average, one person dies of malaria there every 30 seconds.

  • In estivo-autumnal malaria the gametes take distinctive ovoid and crescentic forms, and are not difficult to recognize.

  • In estivo-autumnal fever the regular grouping, while usually present at first, is soon lost, thus causing "irregular malaria."

  • Peter brought the blanket and left him alone, while he faced this new trouble which bore no resemblance to malaria.

  • If he had malaria it clung to him year after year, while he grew more reserved and silent, and saw less and less of the people.

  • As in the low marshy ground at the mouths of the Liri and Volturno, malaria is very prevalent.