Q 01/05

Which Anopheles mosquitoes pass malaria parasites on to people?

A) Both sexes equally

B) Only the males

C) Only the females

D) Only the larvae

Answer · why

C) Only the females

Only the females bite, because they need blood to nourish their eggs; males live on plant nectar, so they never carry the parasite from one person to ...

Q 02/05

The word malaria comes from Italian words meaning what?

A) Swamp fever

B) Bad air

C) Hot blood

D) Black water

Answer · why

B) Bad air

Bad air, or mala aria, got the blame because the fevers clustered around marshes; the mosquitoes that bred there were shown to be the real carriers on...

Q 03/05

Which US health agency grew out of a wartime programme to control malaria around Southern military bases?

A) The FDA

B) The CDC

C) The NIH

D) The VA

Answer · why

B) The CDC

The CDC opened in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center, taking over from Malaria Control in War Areas, and it sits in Atlanta because malaria was t...

Q 04/05

DNA tests published in 2010 found malaria parasites in the mummy of which Egyptian pharaoh?

A) Ramesses II

B) Khufu

C) Cleopatra

D) Tutankhamun

Answer · why

D) Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun carried DNA from the deadliest malaria parasite, and the researchers suggested that an infection on top of a broken leg may have killed th...

Q 05/05

Plasmodium knowlesi, a malaria parasite that spills over to people in Southeast Asia, normally infects which animals?

A) Fruit bats

B) Macaques

C) Wild pigs

D) Civets

Answer · why

B) Macaques

Macaques are its natural hosts, and people who farm, hunt or log near the monkeys' forests are bitten by the same mosquitoes, making it a significant ...