Like folks like us end up using things like experiments, how we use our survey data and how we go and look at Something Like rap lyrics in order to answer questions. Host professor Lester Spence at Johns Hopkins university is the author of stare in the darkness the limits of hiphop and black politics. University of Minnesota Press publisher. Host the name of the book is the malaria project. The author is Karen Masterson. Professor masterson, what is malaria . It is a series of disease. Its not one. Its caused by a parasite from the genus plasmodium and these different parasites to different dings and you find them in different parts of the world. But they all cause some similar symptoms lake intense fever. It looks furnace hot fevers and bone deep chills and body pain and headaches. Some wall hiding your liver and relapse years later. You never know whether youve gotten rid of it. Some in africa can clump together and cause circulatory problems and put you in a coma. You can play socce
Schedule booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors. Television for serious readers. Host the name of book is the malaria project, the author is karen masterson. Ms. Masterson, what is malaria . Guest malaria is a series of disease really. Its not one disease its many diseases caused by several parasites all from the genus plasmodium, and you find them in different parts of the world, but they all cause some similar symptoms like intense fevers like furnace hot fevers and bonedeep chills and body pains and headaches. Some varieties will hide in your liver and relapse years later. You never know whether youve gotten rid of it. Some varieties, like the kind you find in africa can clump together and cause circulatory problems and put you in a coma so you can be playing soccer in the morning and by the evening youre dead. So malaria is the word that we use to describe the diseases that are caused by this genus of parasites. Host how many types are there, would you say .
Its in the process of doing that now. This is the way these parasites have survived the ages. They infected dinosaurs and made it through the ice age is probably in birth. There are many varieties and then they went on to infect other species including primates and the primate species are what a fault to infect us. Host how many people a year have malaria . Guest that number is a squishy one because its hard to measure because so many of the infections go uncounted at the Health Organization estimates around 300 to 500,000 a year. Im sorry, 300 to 500 million a year and about 1 million die every year and most of those are children in africa. Host why hasnt this been eradicated . Guest because the parasites that cause the disease are part of the environment. They are spread by mosquitoes. Ill malarias are carried by mosquitoes so to eradicate malaria you need to either remove people from mosquito populations or kill all of the mosquitoes and that has been very difficult to do. Malaria w
Just on the lr when the people snap back at the companies, and the companies shoot them, and then they attack the person, because, policy, and which your show has covered, no one is talking about, but, how the police are violating the Constitutional Rights of minorities and, thats part of the issue, and, when i put it, these people call in, and, i would like you to ask them, what do they know about stop and frisk, do they think its right for the police to do this . Youll see why, if theres so much bias, if this country,. Host paul is a democrat. Caller you know, i agree with fox, but, i have been switching around, between channels, and, theyre right. I mean, this dude, he is not mother teresa, if he wasnt robbing, a store, he probably wouldnt have gotten shot. I mean, look at it, they have video of him, punching out that guy in the convenience store, he would not have gotten shot. They act like hes some sort of motherrer rea. And he probably wouldnt have been in that position, and you
When i was there. I was not gone that long. Investigators believe the driver may have suffered a medical emergency before the crash. The identity of the driver is not yet released. Were following developing news, holy cross perish in san jose was destroyed by fire, but some miracle, the churchs crucifix was undamaged. The congregation is looking at that as a sign of hope. Thats right. A church named after the holy cross. Its that cross itself that is giving members of this Community Hope because of what did not happen to it in this terrible fire. Reporter the Faith Community of holy cross had to see it for themselves. The devastating loss of not only a church and a building, but a Building Block of their lives for generations. Ive had all my kids here and we had my sisters funeral here, and my brother got married, his wedding was here, so this has been a very painful part in our life. Investigators say an electrical problem in the balcony may have started the family. The father had jus