Chapter 74: Circle of Friends (6)

Malaria: Brothers, I'm back......

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Half an hour ago.

Leishmania protozoa, Trichinella, filaria, schistosomiasis, cystis suis, Toxoplasma gondii, paragonimus westerii, liver fluke, hydatid, trichomoniasis, roundworms, hookworms, tapeworms, amoebas, flagellates, scabies, follicle mites, LOVE AIDS, influenza, yellow fever, dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, dengue fever,

LOVE AIDS: Wow, malaria turned out to be a parasitic disease! Look at these likes, basically all parasites!

Malaria reply LOVE AIDS: Well, I Plasmodium is an intracellular parasite that mainly parasitizes human red blood cells.

Leishmania reverts to malaria: And me, I, Leishmania is also an intracellular parasite, parasitic in macrophages.

Trichinella: I am parasitic in muscle tissue.

Heartworm: I am parasitic in the lymphatic vessels.

Schistosomiasis: I am an intravascular parasitic.

Toxoplasma gondii: I am parasitic in brain tissue.

Cystis suis: I'm also parasitic in brain tissue.

Parapontia wester: I'm parasitic in my lungs.

Liver flukes: As the name suggests, I live in the liver.

Hydatids: Like liver flukes, I live in my liver.

Trichomonasis: I live in the cavities, such as **, and occasionally run into the lungs.

Ascaris: I live in my digestive tract.

Hookworm: Digestive tract +1

Tapeworms: Digestive tract +1

Amoeba: Digestive tract +1

Flagellates: Digestive tract +1

Flu: Wow, so many parasites! Isn't malaria transmitted by mosquitoes? I always thought that malaria was spread by mosquitoes like yellow fever, dengue fever, and encephalitis, so like these three, it was a virus.

Malaria response to influenza: I am a parasite, although I am very small, much smaller than ordinary parasites, so small that they parasitize in red blood cells, but they are also a kind of parasites, much larger than viruses, the three you just talked about, the similarities with me are all insect-borne infectious diseases.

Yellow fever reverts to malaria: I have seen you in mosquitoes.

Dengue fever reverts to malaria: I have seen you in mosquitoes, you are attached to the stomach wall of Anopheles mosquitoes.

JE reverts to malaria: I have seen you in mosquitoes, you have penetrated into human veins through the mouthparts of mosquitoes, and you have walked the same path as me.

Malaria reverts to Japanese encephalitis: Hello, hello, I've seen you too, you are an RNA virus, after you enter the human body, you directly infect the human nervous system, amazing!

Japanese encephalitis reverts to malaria: You are also very powerful, parasitic in human red blood cells, making humans swing hot and cold.

Leishmania reverts to Japanese encephalitis: Plasmodium not only makes people swing, but also tortures their hosts, killing more than 800,000 people in 2000 AD alone.

LOVE AIDS: Bragging, right? How bad is malaria?

Flu reverts to malaria: is it really that bad? Recently, it has been popular to post autobiographies in the circle of friends, do you have an autobiography of malaria? Post it out and let's see.

Malaria reply to the flu: Yes, I just wrote an article and posted it for everyone to see.

My name is Plasmodium, the pathogen that causes malaria, and although I am named "Plasmodium" by humans, I am not at all like other parasites.

I'm small, a type of sporozoides.

Although I have many close siblings, there are four main types that can infect humans: Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium malariae, Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium ovale.

I usually live in mosquitoes, and occasionally go to humans for activities.

I fell in love and got married and had a baby in a mosquito, and when a mosquito bites a human, I follow the mosquito's mouthparts into the human bloodstream.

I entered the red blood cells of humans, multiplied asexually in them, and began to suck human blood and gnaw at human livers.

Countless I broke through one blood cell after another, causing human beings to have high fever, shiver, sweat, and even death.

Humans have been tormented by me for thousands of years, and every time I mention the malaria I caused, humans feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

While I'm torturing humans, they're also looking for ways to deal with me.

Humans were the first to use the bark of an evergreen tree against me, and there was a substance in the bark that killed me that lurked in human blood cells.

Later, humans gave this evergreen tree a name - cinchona.

Although humans found that the bark of the cinchona tree could deal with me, the number of cinchona trees on the earth at that time was too small, and humans fought for this kind of tree, and even had several major battles.

Later, humans purified a drug from the bark of the cinchona tree that killed me and named it quinine.

After the discovery of quinine, humans created several derivatives of quinine one after another, all of which were special drugs that could kill me.

Humans also discovered that I usually lived in the body of mosquitoes, so humans began to carry out large-scale mosquito control activities.

My beloved mosquito population has plummeted.

Under the double pressure of drugs and mosquito eradication, the number of my population was suppressed for a while.

Just when humans were complacent and thought they could destroy me, as smart as I was, I evolved quinine-resistant worms.

Once again, I began to wreak havoc in the crowd.

Humanity is panicking again.

This time, I attacked from the tropics to the temperate zone.

Unfortunately, when I was halfway through the journey, humans extracted a more lethal drug from a plant called Artemisia annua, which was even more lethal to me.

Under the ravages of artemisinin, my population has declined dramatically.

I'm not worried at all, though.

Because, my base camp is in the mosquito body, and as long as the mosquito is there, I will not be extinct.

Just when I thought it was safe, humanity came up with a more vicious idea.

Humans have invented a technology called "gene dive", a terrifying technology that can make mosquitoes lose their ability to bite, and may even make mosquitoes extinct.

I trembled with fear.

There are different voices in humans about gene drive technology, and one of them is worried that this technology will create an imbalance in the biological species in nature.

Humanity has paused the practical application of gene drive technology.

I was given a respite.

But, one after another, the bad ideas of humanity come one after another.

Humans have created a genetically modified mosquito that carries a protein called SM1, and the mosquito with this protein refuses me to live in it.

Human beings used this genetically modified method to completely wipe out my nest and cut off my way of transmission.

Although, this genetically modified mosquito has not yet been released on a large scale for various reasons.

But, I already feel the breath of death.

Mosquito, I love you.

Genetically modified mosquitoes, I hate you!

Dengue fever reverts to malaria: genetically modified mosquitoes, so scary!

LOVE AIDS reverts to malaria: I really sympathize with you, it's okay, I have nothing to do with mosquitoes.

Flu replies to LOVE AIDS: Standing and talking without back pain!

LOVE AIDS Replies to the Flu: I Have No Waist!

Schistosomiasis restores malaria: Mourning! There will always be a way to live, and then look for it.

Malaria responds to schistosomiasis: thanks for the encouragement! Let's not think about those genetically modified mosquitoes, but now I'm thinking about how to evolve artemisin-tolerant worms first.

Leishmania reverts to malaria: Brother malaria, come on, I'm optimistic about you.

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