Our most recent project Out Break
In our project Out Break we were told to make a Treatment, Containment, and Prevention plan for a disease of our choice in a region in the world we were assigned. My group was assigned the Middle East as our region and picked malaria as our disease. Our reason for picking this disease was the middle east had a few previous outbreaks of malaria which made it easier to research information on this topic.
The above picture is showing a pathogen known as plasmodium vivax which is one of several pathogens that cause malaria. Though plasmodium vivax is not the most lethal it is the most common. The way plasmodium vivax and other pathogens causing malaria spread is by a mosquito bite. The pathogen then enters the body and begins to spread through the host. Just some of the symptoms of malaria include fever, chills, shaking, diarrhea, and mental confusion.
Our prevention plan for the disease malaria involves genetically engineering a mosquito that has a resistant gene to plasmodium vivax and the other pathogens causing malaria and release the said mosquito's into major populated areas. These said altered mosquito's will breed with the pathogen carrying mosquito's producing pathogen free mosquito's causing the disease to die out.